We have a newspaper box that is owned and operated by the newspaper, located in our front lobbies. In addition to that, our volunteer guild purchases 200 newspapers daily. A volunteer comes in each day and delivers around the hospital....leaving them in waiting rooms, and going room to room for patients. Recently, the hand hygiene standard came in to question. My infection control people are trying to think through this, but in the meantime our volunteers have stopped going room to room and are now leaving newspapers at the nurses station.
