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Kathleen Puri
Why Patients are Key to Stopping the Spread of ...

Providing hand hygiene supplies along with educating patients and visitors about the importance of hand hygiene is critical.

Why Patients are Key to Stopping the Spread of COVID-19 in Hospitals
Blog, Press
Kathleen Puri
Fitsi Health Founder Wins American Nurses ...

Fitsi Health founder Kathleen Puri, MSN, RN is thrilled and honored to be the winner of the 2019 American Nurses Association Innovation Award!

Fitsi Health Founder Wins American Nurses Association Innovation Award
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Caroline Puri Mitchell
The Infection Prevention Strategy Honors Fitsi ...

Fitsi Health has been named one of Infection Control Tips Top Innovations of 2018!

The Infection Prevention Strategy Honors Fitsi as One of the Top Innovations of 2018
Press, Blog
Kathleen Puri
Empowering Patients is Critical to Decreasing ...

Hand hygiene is the best method to prevent the transmission of infections. Hand hygiene for hospitalized patients sounds obvious – something that should be easy to accomplish and regarded as important to the patient experience. However, patient hand hygiene is a problem for most hospitals today. It is difficult to accomplish and not monitored by healthcare personnel. No infection preventionist will argue against the importance of patient hand hygiene. However, since it is neither prioritized nor measured by hospitals, it falls through the cracks. This, coupled with the fact that more and more research points to patients as the “missing link” in infection control efforts means that, in order to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs), hospitals need dedicated efforts to improve patient hand hygiene. Key to achieving these efforts is empowering patients to make hand hygiene easy to do on their own and to understand the critical importance cleaning their hands plays in preventative care.

Empowering Patients is Critical to Decreasing HAIs
Mayo Clinic, Press
Caroline Puri Mitchell
Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation: Going Beyond ...

Fitsi Health co-founder Caroline Mitchell talks about the importance of Human-Centered Design, and how this affects their process and work.

Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation: Going Beyond What is Measured Today

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Nurses Spotlight: Penny Merkel, RN Empowering Couples To Have Positive Birth Experiences

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Nurses Spotlight: Penny Merkel, RN Empowering Couples To Have Positive Birth Experiences

We interviewed Penny Merkel, a registered nurse with 40 years (and over 2,000 couples) of childbirth education experience. She is an accredited Leclaire Hypnobirthing Instructor, a Certified Lamaze Instructor and also a Lamaze Breastfeeding Support Specialist. In addition, Penny is also a Senior Childbirth Instructor at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. She is […]