Florida – April 2, 2013 – UltraClenz, LLC, a Florida based hand hygiene technology firm, announced today the successful deployment and full implementation of its Patient Safeguard System (PSS) throughout Palms West Hospital. Palm West Hospital is a 204 bed facility owned and operated by Hospital Corporation of America (HCA).

The Patient Safeguard System™ or PSS, is a complete and comprehensive hand hygiene system designed specifically for monitoring the hand hygiene of health care workers around the patient bed. PSS was designed to notify caregivers of their hand hygiene status by cautioning them from interacting with their patients without performing the recommended hand hygiene process.... more...

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. —Palms West Hospital is the first facility in the country to implement a hand-hygiene sanitizing program.

With help from a company called UltraClenz, the pilot program has all Palms West healthcare employees wearing electronic badges that sense when they come within three feet of a patient.... more...

WELLINGTON, Fla. -- It's one of the most important ways to prevent the spread of infection and illness...washing your hands.

Now one local hospital is using new technology to make sure all its employees are doing just that.... more...

West Palm Hospital is using what's billed as a first-of-its kind system to track employee hand-washing, immediately alerting caregivers — and patients — when they don't.

The hospital and UltraClenz, a Jupiter company supplying the technology, said West Palm is the first in the nation to go fully functional with the Patient Safeguard System (PSS) developed by UltraClenz.... more...

UltraClenz is a proud supporter of the World Health Organizations (WHO) “Save Lives Clean Your Hands” campaign. A campaign to promote the global movement to improve hand hygiene. Every 5th of May there is a global celebration regarding the Hand Hygiene initiative.