 Company
Profiles and Programs
Headquarters: Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States
Our mission is to provide programs and
services that promote patient empowerment, hand hygiene compliance,
and consumer education.
 We are a listed Patient Safety
Organization. PSOs are organizations that share the goal of
improving the quality and safety of health care delivery. By
providing both privilege and confidentiality, PSOs create a secure
environment where clinicians and health care organizations can
collect, aggregate, and analyze data, thereby improving quality by
identifying and reducing the risks and hazards associated with
patient care.
more on AHRQ website (opens new window)
Maryanne McGuckin, Dr. ScEd, MT (ASCP), President
mcguckin@hhreports.com
 Dr.
McGuckin is the founder and President of MMI which was established
in 1984. She has had over thirty years of experience as a faculty
and staff member of University of Pennsylvania. She is a Senior
Scholar in Health Policy Department at Thomas Jefferson University
in Philadelphia. In 1998-1999 she was a visiting researcher at
Oxford University, UK and in 2002 a faculty exchange professor at
Katholiecke University, Leuven, Belgium. Dr. McGuckin’s specialty is
infection control and hospital epidemiology.
Dr.
McGuckin created the Partners In Your Care program, a hand-hygiene
program which combines monitoring and patient empowerment and is
used in several hundred hospitals. Dr. McGuckin served on the 2002
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) task force that
developed Hand Hygiene Guidelines for Healthcare Workers and
currently is a member of the WHO task force on developing a global
patient empowerment model.
Dr.
McGuckin is highly regarded in the medical field and has been a
featured speaker at numerous medical seminars and scientific
meetings such as the CDC, Joint Commission, Association for Professionals in Infection
Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology
of America (SHEA). An accomplished author of countless
original and peer-reviewed articles, Dr. McGuckin’s work has
appeared in such publications as the American Journal of Infection
Control, American Journal of Medical
Technology, JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, Infection
Control and Hospital Epidemiology, The American
Journal of Infection Control and Epidemiology, The American Journal
of Surgery and The Journal of Urology.
Dr.
McGuckin is an expert source for national print and broadcast media
including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dateline, 60
Minutes, and MSNBC News. Dr. McGuckin is an alumni of the University
of Pennsylvania.
John Govednik, M.S.
John is Director of Education and
Communications for MMI's healthcare and consumer
programs, and an Analyst and Training Director with Analytic Business Services, Inc's pharmaceutical
and biotech line (AnaBus).
He is a past National Directorate Board member of the ACPA Wellness
Commission, and has developed health policies for university faculty, administrators, and students
at the local, regional, and national levels. John has written
for AJMQ and has presented at APIC, IDSA, SHEA, and many regional
hospital and healthcare associations in addition to his work with
university associations.
John
L. Guinan Jr., JD, MBA
John is our legal and business contract
consultant. He oversees our partnerships, copyright and IP
issues as well as the monitoring of compliance as a Patient Safety
Organization. He is familiar with issues involving HAIs and is
the author of research on malpractice claims and HAIs in the
Philadelphia Judicial System.
Richard Waterman, Ph. D.
Richard is
President of Analytic Business Services, Inc. (AnaBus),
a quantitative research consulting group with experience in
pharmaceutical and biotech industries, government, and
finance/private sectors. He has over twenty years of corporate consulting
experience. Dr. Waterman is an
Adjunct Associate Professor for the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton
School of Business MBA program.
John L. Guinan, BS
Jack is Vice
President of MMI and financial manager.
A Villanova alumni, he has over 40 years of experience in banking,
business development and management.
Michael
A. Donio, MPA
Mike is a freelance healthcare writer and editor whose
healthcare experience spans more than two decades. He is an
author and contributing editor to many consumer healthcare
publications. He was an original staff member of the Peoples
Medical Society. Mr. Donio is also a healthcare policy
analyst, health systems planner and consultant.
Maryellen E. Guinan, JD
Maryellen is
the developer of the Buddies Hand Hygiene Program. She
serves as our health policy and regulatory assistant.
She is a
past research coordinator in the Department of Health Policy at
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and was an extern at White
and Williams law firm in Philadelphia.
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Patient
Empowerment |
Details |
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All for One |
The All for One
program is for patient and healthcare worker
empowerment education.
More on our consumers
page. |
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What to do before... |
Patient education
before entering the hospital.
More on our
consumers page |
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Wallet Card |
Part of the What to
do before... program, a wallet card so you will
always have reminders of the right questions
when needed. More
on our consumers page |
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WHO
Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Health Care. A
comprehensive manual. |
Dr. McGuckin is lead author for Ch. 5 on patient
empowerment.
more... |
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Hand Hygiene
Compliance |
Details |
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Compliance
Measurement and Benchmarking Reports |
Monthly reports for
hospital compliance measurement.
More on our hospitals
page. |
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National Hand
Hygiene Compliance Database |
We manage one of the
only hand hygiene compliance databases in the
USA. Data submitted by hundreds of
hospitals contributes to pioneering reserach and
studies of compliance rates for hospitals using
one standard methodology.
More on our research
page. |
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Consulting |
Dr. McGuckin and the
MMI company produce several conference
presentations a year for hospitals, healthcare
systems, state and regional associations, and
national conferences. Contact us if you
would like to discuss hand hygiene compliance at
a future meeting. We provide presentations
in person or via teleconference. |
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Consumer
Education |
Details |
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What to do before... |
Patient education
before entering the hospital.
More on our
consumers page |
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Wallet Card |
Part of the What to
do before... program, a wallet card so you will
always have reminders of the right questions
when needed.
More on our
consumers page |
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Consumer book |
Forthcoming, Dr.
McGuckin is finalizing a book for any healthcare
consumer, present or future, empowering them to
be active participants in their care. More
soon. |
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Consulting |
Details |
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Infection Control,
Epidemiology, and related topics. |
Dr. McGuckin has
over 30 years experience as faculty and senior
scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and at
Jefferson Medical College. Her background
and expertise are called upon by hospital
administrators, scholars, media, and legal
executives who request insight on healthcare
issues. Contact Dr. McGuckin at
mcguckin@hhreports.com if you have a
question on the types of consulting she can
assist you or your organization with. |
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Individual Studies |
If your hospital is
conducting a study on compliance and you think
you could use information from the National
Database for Hand Hygiene Compliance, contact us
at
mcguckin@hhreports.com. Data and
reports from the database are not for sale but
we may be able to collaborate depending on the
nature of your study. |
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Initiatives
Measurement /
Feedback
Your
Monthly Reports:
How to implement the hand hygiene compliance measurement program
at your healthcare center.
more...
Request
a sample:
E-mail us to request a sample monthly report at:
data@hhreports.com.
We will e-mail you a PDF sample.
Current compliance in the
USA:
See current aggregate hand hygiene compliance data, updated
monthly.
more...
Patient
/ HCW Education
Healthcare consumer education programs including the
All for One©
patient empowerment / healthcare worker empowerment program.
more...
Newsletter.
Talk to the Hand, MMI's periodic
hand hygiene newsletter with compliance tips from
Preventionists, infection control event notices, and other
educational FYIs.
more...
Request a newsletter:
E-mail us to add yourself to our e-list at:
data@hhreports.com.
Nobody uses these contacts except McGuckin Methods for HH
compliance related notices only.
USA
Initiatives:
CDC H1N1 Situation
updates and general information. Open new window...
 FLU.GOV
Know what to do about the flu.
Seasonal, H1N1, H5N1, pandemic flu.
Open
new window...
 2010
National Patient Safety Goals from Joint Commission.
Open new window...
Also note changes in the NPSGs for 2010, from the
Joint Commission Perspectives October 2009 newsletter.
 FAQs
for NPSG 07.01.01 Meeting Hand Hygiene Guidelines
Open new window...
 CDC
Guideline for Hand Hygiene, 2002.
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Global
Initiatives:
 World Health
Org.
Global Patient Safety Challenge:
Clean Care is Safer Care.
Open new window...
 WHO
Guidelines
for Hand Hygiene in Health Care. A
comprehensive manual.
more...
May 5, 2010 is the next SAVE LIVES:
Clean Your Hands event.
Webinars, tools and resources, best practices, and more.
Pledge your healthcare facility's commitment and visit this
resourceful website. 1352
healthcare centers in the USA have signed up as of Oct. 30,
2009! Open new window...
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