DO NOT LET YOUR SCHOOL CLOSE DUE TO H1N1

PREPARE NOW FOR THE FALL!!!

Send out a "Back to School Infection Prevention Kit" to allow your students and their families to Practice the 4 Principles of Hand Awareness to teach the BEST prevention techniques.

Also ask your local camps and summer programs to "Get Started"
to get ahead of the curve!!

     Call us for more  details, 412-741-3185.

Thank you for taking the NECESSARY steps to prepare your school population for the Fall. Vaccination is NOT the sole answer.

                       Dr. Will Sawyer

Henry's Repositional Wall Graphic

Yes it takes reinforcements to improve compliance with hand hygiene!

NOW there is a Henry the Hand Champion Handwasher (18" X 22") Hand Hygiene Officer who will be your new assistant in your Tool Kit to compliment your monitoring of Hand Awareness (hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette and cross contamination awareness).

"Stick Up" anywhere you want Henry to "Watch", then move him again and again to wherever you NEED an extra set of Hands (or eyes)!

Now available in the Store!

Dr. Will's Simple Solution to a Complex Problem like the SWINE FLU

This 12 minute presentation will convey the concept of the Program in a brief presentation and will help you to understand HOW YOUR SCHOOL< HOSPITAL or CHURCH CAN PREVENT SPREADING THE SWINE FLU!!!

 It describes a standard that will benefit patient Safety, Infection Prevention, Food Safety, School Health and Public Health. It is worth watching and COMPLYING with the concepts to ensure you DO NOT contract a respiratory or gastro-intestinal disease the rest of your life!!

Yes it needs littl bit of editing. Thank you for helping to "Spread the word not the germs!"

New Handwashing Guide static cling available!

If you can't read the language,

you STILL can GET THE PICTURE!!

The FIRST SELF-TEACHING Handwashing Instructions for those who cannot understand written english right there above the sink! 
Henry the Hand's Handwashing Instructions are now available in a static cling as a visual aide to educate EVERYONE (adults and children) on proper handwashing technique. These colorful and helpful static clings adhere to mirrors without leaving any residue, they stick by static not glue!!  

Many states are mandating instructions to be displayed in the bathrooms, so let's be ahead of the curve.

Add Henry's Logo to your newsletter!

In the spirit of working together to protect OUR community we would like to "lend a Hand" to educate all of us about the importance of "Hand Awareness". Please, click the header and share Henry the Hand with your school, church, business, community and friends in your local news and communications!

            Thank you,

              Henry the Hand and Dr.Will

"Spread the Word not the Germs!"

Where's Henry???

Henry’s helping Spread the Word Not the Germs all over the World!

Henry is happy to appear to "edu-tain" the adults and children.

Invite Henry to your hospital, school and community!

Henry visiting Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA.

Henry the Hand Champion Handwasher at Global Health Council

Henry is giving tips to the World Bank's Handwashing program.  

National Endorsement of the 4 Principles of Hand Awareness since 2001

The 4 Principles of Hand Awareness were endorsed by the
American Medical Association (http://www.ama-assn.org/)
and the American Academy of Family Physicians (http://www.aafp.org/x37651.xml) in 2001.

A Message from the Creator of Henry the Hand

Please click the header above to see a personal note
to my children and how Henry got his start.

Having spent almost 19 years on this mission, I am beginning to appreciate the battle Ignaz Semmelweis MD went through with the Austrian Medical Society and John Snow MD went through with the London Public Health system trying to increase their awareness about Puerperal Fever (Child birth fever) in the 1840's and Cholera, back in the mid 1860's respectively,
which took about 20 years for either discovery to be accepted.

We can not afford to take another 20 years to accept the 4 Principles of Hand Awareness as a method to protect
the Public from infectious disease and the potential outbreaks, as too many innocent (unaware) people will suffer needlessly.

                             " Dr. Will "

                              William P. Sawyer, MD

Who is Dr. Will?

Solo practice Family Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio since May 1, 1986.

Trihealth Hospital System Patient Safety Committee, 2004-present.

Bethesda North Hospital Med. Executive Committee, 2000-2008.

Influenza Surveillance Network for CDC, physician member

Hand Awareness: Non Pharmaceutical approach to prevent human illness and transmission of emerging pathogens presentations; NEHA,2006, NAHEC 2006, USDA Food Safety Conference, 2006 and AMA/CMA Physicians Health Conference, 2006.

Henry the Hand Foundation, founder 1999.

Henry the Hand Champion Handwasher, creator,1996.

Clean Hands Coalition, founding member, May 1, 2003-present.

Bridges to Excellence, founding member, 2000-2002.

Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee state of Ohio, Co-chair 1996 to present.

Patient Safety Shield or H1N1 Safety Shield

I am wearing this Patient Safety Shield (PSS) in the office to demonstrate how effective it is  as a TEACHING device and SAFETY Tool. For one year (2008) I wore the PSS on rounds to the hospital to help reinforce the significance of the role our hands play in the spread of MRSA, C. diff and VRE. Since MRSA is colonized in the HCWs noses, atleast 30% of the HCWs are colonized at any one time and since it is recommended to treat and remove the HCW(HealthCare Worker) from clinical care until eradicated (CDC in 1983), perhaps 6 weeks. The responsible step in the health care arena is to use the barrier method to protect the patient by reducing coloniztion, and to help change the HCWs habit to PREVENT continued contamination. I am a solo practice Family Medicine physician who teaches primary prevention techniques all day long to patients and felt it was past time to teach other HCWs the importance of Hand Awareness to reduce HAIs(Hospital Acquired Infections)

. Remember,
"Do not touch the T-zone (mucus membranes)!"

Please visit the STORE  for more Patient Safety and Hand Awareness Tools.       Most of the remarks from patients are "it is about time!"

History of Ignaz Semmelweis MD

History of John Snow MD

Here is another historical summary of his Cholera discovery in London in 1854 with the Broad Street Pump. 

CONTACT Dr.Will Sawyer:

Henry the Hand Foundation

11714 Us Rte 42
Cincinnati, Ohio 45241
513-769-4951

dr.will@henrythehand.com

or PROGRAM QUESTIONS:

Contact Margaret Bailey for ANY questions about products or a Program. She is the National Campaign Director,
at 412-741-3185 or hthorders@yahoo.com.

Let us know how we can lend a Hand!!

                                                    Dr.Will