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 ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released two new infection-control and prevention resources for dental practices, in partnership with the Organization for Safety, Asepsis ...

"Patient safety," "culture of safety," and "first do no harm" -- these are terms synonymous with a safe patient experience. However, in recent months several infection-control breaches have been ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma at a July press conference. An infection control training program aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes is now available for frontline facility ...

Five basic approaches can help ambulatory surgical facilities implement infection control best practices, according to expertise from Chuck Peck, MD, managing director of Navigant Consulting and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Staff who took part in a specially designed online infection control course -- in addition to receiving on-the-job training -- said their skills improved by a fifth and led to a number of suggestions ...

Ambulatory surgical centers must now maintain infection control programs directed by a designated health care professional with training in infection control, and audited adherence will be conducted ...

Her plan four years ago seemed pretty straightforward: Help nursing homes communicate their infection rates to the CDC in an effort to curb what she saw was a big problem. At the time, there was no ...