{"id":119535,"date":"2025-10-13T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/119535\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:45:09","slug":"access-collaboration-and-a-global-push-ahead-of-clean-hospitals-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/119535\/","title":{"rendered":"Access, Collaboration, and a Global Push Ahead of Clean Hospitals Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pb-2\"><a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cleanhospitals.com\/\">Clean Hospitals<\/a> has a new CEO and a widened mission. \u201cI\u2019m excited\u2014and there\u2019s a lot of work to do\u2014but I have a lot of support,\u201d said Alexander Peters, PhD, from Geneva, Switzerland, in this interview with Infection Control Today\u00ae (ICT\u00ae). Under her leadership, the organization has revamped governance and opened its doors to health care facilities worldwide. \u201cThe board now includes some of the best people in health care environmental hygiene\u2026Brett Mitchell, PhD; Stephanie Dancer, PhD; Martin Kiernan, MPH, MClin Res; David J. Weber, MD, MPH; and Pierre Parneix, MD,\u2026a strong academic team,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Clean Hospitals has had a significant shift: making membership affordable for hospitals, especially in low- and middle-income settings. \u201cWe\u2019re not asking for a high fee,\u201d Peters, who is also a member of ICT\u2019s Editorial Advisory Board, said. Dues are scaled to World Bank income level\u2014\u201canywhere from 500 to 25 Swiss francs a year\u2014and if a facility can\u2019t afford it, we have a little funding to help.\u201d The aim is to create an active learning network. \u201cWe\u2019ll host events so facilities can exchange on environmental hygiene and hand hygiene with experts, talk through challenges, and figure out how to address issues in their own settings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Peters is also pushing hard on partnerships. \u201cWe can\u2019t sit in silos,\u201d she emphasized. \u201cI\u2019m working to make sure we all know what everyone else is doing and align on what\u2019s beneficial to everybody.\u201d New working groups are already forming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Fresh from the <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/conference.icpic.com\/\">ICPIC conference in Geneva<\/a>, she described the tone as sober but hopeful: \u201cAbout 1,000 people from about 100 countries came. This year\u2019s theme was how the world can move forward from what\u2019s happening in the US and regroup globally. It didn\u2019t feel hopeless\u2014people, including many from the US, were eager to forge new partnerships and keep this a truly global effort. Diseases don\u2019t stop at borders, and infection preventionists can\u2019t either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clean Hospitals Day 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Mark your calendar: <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cleanhospitals.com\/chday\/\">Clean Hospitals Day is October 20, 2025<\/a>, with the theme \u201cHuman Factors and Collaboration.\u201d The campaign raises worldwide awareness of health care environmental hygiene and offers toolkits to help facilities celebrate and improve practice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\">Peters\u2019 message is clear: Lower the barriers, link arms across organizations, and keep the focus on the people and practices that make care safer every day, everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clean Hospitals has a new CEO and a widened mission. \u201cI\u2019m excited\u2014and there\u2019s a lot of work to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[73082,73081,18,5449,73083,135,73084,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-119535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-alexandra-peters","9":"tag-clean-hospitals","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-environmental-hygiene","12":"tag-geneva-switzerland","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-icpic","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}