Legacy Healthcare tests infection prevention tool

SKOKIE - Legacy Healthcare, which manages a network of long-term and post-acute health care facilities in the United States, has announced a test program using Highlight colorant for bleach wipes.

The Highlight colorant and wipes are an infection prevention tool to enhance the safety of facilities' patients and residents by making disinfection steps visible, Legacy said.

Legacy and Kinnos, the maker of Highlight, are evaluating the facility-wide implementation of Highlight in three skilled nursing facilities. With the Highlight colorizing wipes, the facilities' staff are empowered with a tool that enables them to self-monitor and teaches them how to self-correct during disinfection, the company said.

Legacy's Warren Barr Gold Coast location in Chicago is among the three facilities piloting the Highlight disinfectant wipes.

"Kinnos Highlight Coloring is another powerful tool, used concomitantly with an EPA-approved disinfectant, to effectively clean high-touch environmental surfaces and patient care equipment in our centers," said Robert Francis Amoloria, Legacy Healthcare's chief clinical officer.