At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 16, Dotty J. Bollinger, RN, JD, COO, and Lisa Melamed, JD, staff attorney at Laser Spine Institute, ...

Protecting residents staff ratings requires four actionable infection control steps to improve safety, compliance and operational performance in ...

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 ...

Mary Duncan, R.N., MSN, CIC, is the senior director of Infection Prevention for the UAB Health System, with 18 years of experience implementing best practices at various health facilities. Her ...

New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

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 ...

This is an excellent book to introduce new members of the team to a topic which will form the basis of their daily practice. It could be used as part of an induction programme or to update all team ...

A Lancet study across Indian ICUs finds preventable central line bloodstream infections causing high mortality, driven by ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s latest report on Kadima Rehabilitation and Nursing in Drums notes that the facility did not have anyone serving as an infection preventionist during a recent ...