Hygiene and prevention of infectious risks
The clinic pays close attention to infection prevention and hygiene, which are the cornerstones of safety.
Good practice
To ensure optimum hygiene at Hôpital Privé Sud Corse, our teams follow a set of best practices that go beyond the mandatory regulations. Your participation is essential.
Adopt the right reflexes:
Rub your hands with the hydro-alcoholic solution provided on entering and leaving the room, and before and after meals.
Wash your hands after using the toilet, blowing your nose and/or sneezing.
Do not wear false nails or nail varnish on your hands or feet during your stay.
Avoid keeping perishable food products in your room, such as fruit juice, fruit, dairy products, etc.
By following this advice, you are taking part in the collective effort to improve the quality and safety of care.
Combating hospital-acquired infections
An infection is said to be nosocomial if it appears during or following hospitalisation.
One of the clinic's priorities, the programme to combat nosocomial infections is coordinated by a Committee to Combat Nosocomial Infections (CLIN), made up of doctors, paramedical staff and management.
It defines a policy of actions to prevent and monitor these infections, monitor the environment, train and inform professionals, and evaluate actions to combat nosocomial infections.
The Ministry of Health has established various indicators to evaluate and monitor the quality of the fight against nosocomial infections within a healthcare establishment.
The fight against healthcare-associated infections
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are infections that can be contracted throughout the course of care. We have set up an organisation with a multidisciplinary team to combat the risk of infection.
These measures apply to everyone involved (doctors, surgeons, care teams and patients), as well as to equipment and premises. They are based on protocols that are regularly assessed and applied on a daily basis.
- Bottles of hydro-alcoholic solutions are placed at the entrance to rooms to encourage visitors to disinfect their hands. Sometimes it is necessary to take special precautions, which must be observed when visiting relatives (wearing gowns, masks, etc.).
- The teams receive regular training in day-to-day hygiene.
- The biocleaning of rooms, operating theatres and patient areas is scrupulously carried out to avoid any risk of infection.
- Environmental bacteriological monitoring is also organised.