Infection Control

Patient falls are often associated with elderly patients, but as one hospital experienced firsthand, postpartum women recovering...Read More »

Like Franklin Woods Community Hospital (see p. 7), Sycamore Shoals Hospital (SSH) in Elizabethton, Tenn., a Mountain States...Read More »

A podcast from The Joint Commission on key learnings from the SSI Change Project and The Joint Commission Implementation Guide for NPSG 07.05.01...Read More »

If a member of the voluntary medical staff is exposed to a communicable disease while caring for a patient at your facility, do you have any...Read More »

Loyola University Medical Center endured its share of objections from healthcare workers who did not want to be vaccinated against influenza. But...Read More »

Hospitals should continue to conduct routine risk assessments to determine how well their infection control strategies are working before...Read More »

Some healthcare-associated infection (HAI) rates have gone down in the past few years, according to the 2011 National and State...Read More »

Hospital leadership must ensure that the infection control program had adequate access to the resources needed to support the functions of...Read More »

On November 6, 2000, the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was signed into law, and since then, there has been a significant decrease in...Read More »

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