GOJO, a global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions and the inventors of PURELL, offers a free, downloadable and adaptable sample infection control risk assessment form for ...

Facilities must 'identify, isolate, and inform' during the resumption of operations. Editor's note: This article by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care was originally published by ...

Despite CDC recommendations, there is no law requiring infection prevention training for any construction worker or other vendor working in a health care facility. An alarming 5 percent of all ...

TORONTO, July 10, 2020 /CNW/ - The COVID-19 pandemic presents a long-overdue opportunity for an assessment of the need to renovate outdated long-term care (LTC) facilities across the province, and ...

The Linders Health Institute™ is pleased to announce that registration has started for their special training course, Fundamentals of Infection Control Risk Assessment. The class will take place over ...

During a state survey of Cleburne (Texas) Surgical Center this past spring, Suzette Rieger, RN, clinical coordinator of the ASC, says she and the surveyor reviewed the ASC’s infection control ...

2015 was a critical year for infection prevention, with several “pivotal moments” shaking the industry and further emphasizing the need for integration into organizations’ quality assurance ...

In late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was detected in Wuhan, China, and the risk to global human ...

In a time when modern, up-to-date facilities can be a big selling point for hospitals seeking more patients, construction and maintenance projects have become the norm in hospitals across the country ...

An alarming 5 percent of all hospital stays result in readmissions due to infections that patients acquire in the health care facility. These infections, which are widely seen as preventable and often ...

TORONTO, July 10, 2020 /CNW/ - The COVID-19 pandemic presents a long-overdue opportunity for an assessment of the need to renovate outdated long-term care (LTC) facilities across the province, and ...