The infection control department needs to communicate surveillance data to staff to ensure awareness of any issues. Data is communicated by several methods at South Nassau Communities Hospital. After ...

Medical device and pharmaceutical companies are seizing the opportunity to help hospitals with infection control. While interest in infection control isn't new, hospitals are under greater ...

Hospital infection prevention programs — already “underfunded and understaffed” before the pandemic hit — now have insufficient capacity to prevent HAIs, the organization said.. In the 66 ...

For example, the Samsung Medical Center (SMC), a 2000-bed tertiary hospital in Seoul with 9,000 staff, has adopted a rigorous infection control strategy that is centered on preventing the ...

Hospital-Based Medicine > Infection Control New Guidance to Stem the Tide of MRSA Spread in Hospitals — Detecting asymptomatic infections and decolonization among new recommendations ...

On any given day, 1 in 31 hospital patients and 1 in 43 nursing home residents has an infection acquired while seeking medical care, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On Nov. 27, 2007, the hospital’s infection control practitioner was unaware of the two patients who had infections.

To top it off, the CDC stopped requiring hospitals to report hospital-onset Covid in May 2023, leaving us without data to evaluate the impact of ending Covid-19 infection control in health care ...

Hospital infection control thrust into public eye, courtesy of Ebola While infection prevention is top of mind for hospitals, and the fact that the hospital industry has been battling microbes ...

"Infection control is always serious,” he said adding that in 28 years, it's "one of the most serious things that [he's] seen in infection control with any hospital." ...

The hospital mets infection control standards at the last visit by the department on March 28. Wolk said that the risk of affected patients getting HIV, ...