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Just Clean Your Hands

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Effective December 1, 2011, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) completed its transfer of the Just Clean Your Hands (JCYH) program to Public Health Ontario. 

Just Clean Your Hands is a multifaceted, evidence-based, hand hygiene program and was developed to overcome barriers to proper hand hygiene and improve compliance with hand hygiene best practices.   The MOHLTC created JCYH originally for hospitals and was launched in 2008.  The ministry adapted JCYH for the long-term care homes sector in 2009.  In August 2011, the long-term care home materials became available to the retirement home sector.  View the newest tools that have been added to the program.

PHO welcomes the transfer of JCYH, building on the success of the program to protect the health of Ontarians by providing scientific and technical expertise in preventing health care-associated infections.

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