A report by a senior infection prevention analyst at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority provides five basic infection control best practices for ASCs. The report, “Strategies to Fully Implement ...

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 ...

The following is written by Carla Daley, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health. At Regent, we believe in "walking the walk," meaning that our facilities should be status ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . National infection prevention experts, led by the CDC’s Health Research & Educational Trust, have developed a ...

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

Total, or hospital-wide, surveillance-collection of comprehensive data on all infections in the facility, with the aim of correcting problems as they arise. This is labor intensive. Surveillance by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eighty-three nursing homes in the Cincinnati region are among those with basic infection control violations, The Enquirer analysis shows. None of the infection violations found in Ohio in The Enquirer ...

The prevention of healthcare-associated infections continues to garner increasing attention in the USA. Although much of this attention is focused on inpatient settings, outpatient settings are also ...

The following is written by Carla Daley, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health. At Regent, we believe in “walking the walk,” meaning that our facilities should be status ...