The Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP) and the DALE Foundation said that 600 oral healthcare professionals have earned the OSAP-DALE Foundation Dental Infection Prevention and ...

TUSTIN, Calif., Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shahbaz Salehi, MPH, MSHIA, director, infection control, at Foothill Regional Medical Center, has been named the 2024 Educator of the Year by ...

Hospitals are required to have antibiotic stewardship programs and infection control policies consistent with CDC/HICPAC guidance in order to maintain federal funding. Accrediting bodies like The ...

The CDC ended its healthcare infection control practices advisory committee on May 8, and healthcare associations and groups are decrying the decision. Each year, hospitals incur $28.4 billion to ...

The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow.

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of medical advice used by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

THURSDAY, May 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns from health experts.

Several committee members of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee have received termination notices, MedPage Today reported April 29. 1. HICPAC develops guidance ...

but developed due to poor infection control. Leapfrog calculates its hospital safety grades based on a combination of a voluntary survey and mandatory reporting from third-party sources ...

(KATU) — The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) has strongly criticized the Trump administration's decision to dissolve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection ...