Leapfrog Offers Alternative Path to Meeting Hand Hygiene Standard

3/14/22 — In response to public comments and feedback, The Leapfrog Group Hospital Survey as announced that it will be offering an alternative path to meeting the organization’s Hand Hygiene Standard.  In its March 14 “Summary of Changes to the 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Survey & Responses to Public Comments,” Leapfrog said that the alternative path “requires hospitals to monitor 100 hand hygiene opportunities (rather than 200) per unit per month and meet all other elements for the remaining domains: Monitoring and Feedback, Training and Education, Infrastructure, and Culture.”  Further the organization is providing two options for measuring the volume of alcohol-based hand sanitizer dispensed with each activation.  View the Summary of Changes to access detailed information about the hand hygiene standard as well as other standards and related algorithms.