The hospital has not had a central line-associated bloodstream infection or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the past eight months. AdventHealth Celebration hospital has made gains by ...
Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHOENIX — Infection rates decreased by up to 57% at a Virginia health system when it increased the size of its ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection preventionists spent most of their time doing off-site consultations. Researchers developed a formula ...
Infection prevention in senior living facilities has come a long way since the onset of COVID-19, but significant risks remain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an ...
Hospitals across Oregon are falling below national standards in preventing infections, according to the Oregon Health ...
During the pandemic, one very clear tragedy stood out: Approximately 200,000 residents and staff died from COVID-19 in nursing homes. However, what many people don’t realize is that even before the ...
Every ASC administrator knows infection control is important, but many ASCs still fall down on cleaning their facilities properly and preventing infection. Peter Sheldon of medical facility cleaning ...
The Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality provides a free, downloadable poster focusing on preventing infection through environmental disinfection. The poster addresses why disinfection is important ...