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Hand Hygiene

Hand hygiene is cleaning your hands to stop the spread of germs. Please wash your hands when you: enter the hospital building, before and after every contact with a patient, before and after eating, after using the washroom and when leaving the building.

Hand sanitizer stations are located throughout the hospital to help with this. Hand sanitizers are preferred as they:
  • Are more effective than soap at killing germs on hands
  • Require less time
  • Are more accessible than handwashing sinks
HHCC regularly monitors and reviews hand hygiene rates and uses this information to execute best practice protective measures and continually improve patient care and safety.
Access our hand hygiene rates or more information on hand hygiene in healthcare settings.
We acknowledge that our hospital resides within the traditional territory and ancestral lands of the Tionontati, Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabe peoples.

We also acknowledge that various municipalities within the County of Dufferin reside within the treaty lands named under the Haldimand Deed of 1784 and two of the Williams Treaties of 1818: Treaty 18: the Nottawasaga Purchase, and Treaty 19: the Ajetance Treaty.

We also acknowledge the land which forms the Town of Caledon is also part of the traditional Territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee Peoples, and the Anishnabek of the Williams Treaties.

This land is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

ACSealAwES-(2).PNG Dedicated to safe, high-quality care, Headwaters is proudly accredited with Exemplary Standing.
 

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