Doral, Fla.-based Jackson West Medical Center opened in August 2021 with a road map for preventing hospital acquired infections that is now being scaled across the system. “From the very beginning, we ...

Disinfectants are used extensively for surface cleaning, floor cleaning, and equipment cleaning in critical care units and ...

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According to the inspectors’ report, the head of infection control at the hospital not only neglected to monitor the compounding lab, but also falsified documents to cover up her failure to ...

About 103,000 deaths were linked to hospital infections, 13,000 more than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated last year, according to a report in Sunday editions of the ...

Hospital infection control programs can help healthcare organizations monitor and improve practices, identify risks and proactively establish policies to prevent the spread of infections. Judith ...

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.

Major players in the hospital-acquired infection control market are Belimed AG, Advanced Sterilization Products Services Inc., 3M Company, Getinge AB, Olympus Corporation, Ecolab Inc., Steris ...

Total, or hospital-wide, surveillance-collection of comprehensive data on all infections in the facility, with the aim of correcting problems as they arise. This is labor intensive. Surveillance ...

Hospital infection control experts question validity of public reporting metrics in new survey Infection control experts found that certain quality metrics are seen as low value and should be ...

The who-done-it analysis of where the bacteria originated, and the lessons that followed for the hospital about infection control, have been highlighted in a study published by Brigham clinicians ...