The Joint Commission and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are collaborating on a new initiative related to infection prevention and control in the ambulatory healthcare setting. 1. The ...

Reprocessing? Injections? Personal technology? Hand hygiene? While healthcare experiences dramatic advances, infection control continues to encounter some of the same consistently thorny issues. The ...

The state comptroller's office said that the N.Y. Department of Health has made "limited progress" on recommendations from a previous audit The state comptroller's office said that the Department of ...

Researchers conducted a recent survey gauging nurses’ knowledge and beliefs about infection control practices, according to a study published Dec. 13, in the American Journal of Infection Control. 1.

Members of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) voted Friday to defend what some have called weak standards of infection control for healthcare settings, agreeing ...

One of our industry’s many lessons from the pandemic is the importance of balancing infection prevention and control with residents’ quality of life. However, a lesson learned isn’t always a problem ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that KLAS Research has recognized the Sentri7 ® clinical surveillance solution as Best in KLAS ® for infection control and ...

Residents in a private nursing home suffered an outbreak of scabies over many months with poor infection control to stop the spread, an inspector's report has revealed. Scabies, which is highly ...

TOLEDO, Ohio ( WTVG /Gray News) - A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a nursing home in Ohio after a resident ...