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 ...

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 ...

About 1 in 4 for-profit nursing homes across the country are likely not complying with federal regulations surrounding infection control staff, increasing health and safety risks for residents and ...

Carol Hiatt, RN, LHRM, CASC, a licensed risk manager in Florida, AAAHC surveyor and consultant for Healthcare Consultants International, a subsidiary of AAAHC, shares 11 strategies to help surgery ...

In a recent letter to leaders in Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) highlighted the “astonishing lack of attention to infection prevention and ...

While many hospitals were trimming budgets and enforcing hiring freezes, infection prevention manager Luz Caicedo successfully doubled her department’s workforce at AdventHealth Celebration (Fla.) ...

The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) says that the need for agency staff to cover staff shortages arising from chronic workforce gaps and absences due to COVID-19 is draining anaesthetic ...

The Surgical Center at Columbia (Mo.) Orthopaedic Group relies on its close-knit staff for quality outcomes. Andrew Lovewell, the center’s administrator, told Becker’s ASC Review the center has a 0.04 ...

The rate of COVID-19 cases reported among nursing home staff in the U.S. reached a new high this week as infection numbers spiked across the U.S. More than 57,000 COVID-19 cases were reported among ...