Hospital infection control programs can help healthcare organizations monitor and improve practices, identify risks and proactively establish policies to prevent the spread of infections. Judith ...

Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD, has been named Mass General Brighams’s inaugural chief of infection control, the Somerville, Mass.-based system said June 28. She was also recently appointed to a federal ...

Protecting residents staff ratings requires four actionable infection control steps to improve safety, compliance and operational performance in ...

Swabs taken from coffeemakers in German hospital offices and break rooms, and in workers' homes, tested positive for several important pathogens, researchers found. But the investigators also found ...

U.S. hospitals made gains to reduce healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) but saw patient experiences further deteriorate in the latest release of an independent watchdog’s twice-yearly safety report.

Among 13 hospital units including nearly 3,800 healthcare providers, adherence to expected practice was greater among the units asked to directly glove without hand hygiene compared with the units ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A multidisciplinary team created a guideline and checklist to simplify the mpox response in an emergency ...

Hospital-acquired infections, which became substantially more common during the pandemic, have returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from a patient safety watchdog group. It's key ...

New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

Recent 11-day closure of endoscopy department confirmed by hospital and OHA officials; free patient testing offered Providence Medford Medical Center and Oregon Health Authority officials this week ...

To Burton Davis, the surgery seemed nothing short of a miracle. The 58-year-old's curved spine had nagged him for the better part of two decades, putting constant pressure on his lower back and ...