Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is critical that your ASC not only train your staff members about your infection control program, but you must also test them to ensure they understand your policies and procedures, infection ...

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.) ...

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 ...