Matt Phillion

By Matt Phillion In 2023, one in six adults 60 or older experienced some form of elder abuse in community settings according to the World Health Organization. Even more alarmingly, two out of three staff members reported they had engaged in some sort of abuse in the previous year. What can organizations do to improve their hiring processes, fight burnout and attrition, and avoid safety risks and exposure to compliance violations?

By Matt Phillion When discussing safety and quality in surgical care, we often highlight key topics like infection control. But an often-overlooked gap in surgical care, intraoperative hypothermia, can have an impact on things like increased cardiac stress, bleeding risks, recovery times, and complication rates, especially in older patients or patients with underlying heart conditions.

By Matt Phillion While the focus has traditionally been on behavioral changes, emerging research has identified an unexpected gap in hand hygiene compliance that points in another direction: sanitizer dose size. Year after year, hand hygiene compliance rates remain flat.