Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of programs surveyed, 90% reported some IPC/HE training, whereas 33.3% reported a dedicated IPC/HE training ...

The CDC released three new online courses in infection prevention developed by a team led by the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The CDC/STRIVE curriculum focuses ...

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

MOKENA, ILL. — For the first time, ASSE International will offer the opportunity to become ASSE Certified during its 2017 annual meeting, held Nov. 7-10, 2017, at the Hilton Palacio del Rio in San ...

Delivering on their commitment to provide healthcare workers with better learning methodologies, Emory University’s Healthcare Human Factors Lab (HHFL), Relias, and Inception XR are partnering to ...

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

First came the federal requirement that every nursing home must have an infection control preventionist on staff. Now, a government watchdog says that minimum training requirements should be ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) has issued numerous complex and detailed rules and standards that apply to, and regulate, dental practices. Although many dental and ...

The best way to show the federal government takes seriously the importance of infection control in nursing homes, especially in the wake of the pandemic, is to require a full-time specialist. That’s ...

Public health officials reported at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual conference that long-term care facilities in Tennessee and Washington state continue ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s latest report on Kadima Rehabilitation and Nursing in Drums notes that the facility did not have anyone serving as an infection preventionist during a recent ...

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