As an association that represents more than 135 hospitals and health-care organizations in the Chicago area, the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC) wants to assure area residents that p… ...

As hospitals face financial and staffing challenges, infection control becomes more difficult, Akin Demehin, senior director of policy at the American Hospital Association, told the Post.

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

Infection control is a constant battle – but the down-and-dirty days are over. Mark Ryan In the mid-1970s, he worked as an autoclaver on the 3-to-11 shift in the Central Supply Department at ...

Dublin, Feb. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Dental Infections Control Market: A Global and Regional Analysis, 2023-2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global ...

Source Reference: Popovich KJ, et al "SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in acute-care hospitals ...

Historically, the “worker bees” in hospitals have also played a big role in infection control. Hospital medical supplies for patients – many of which are now disposable and safer – were ...

This year, 19% of hospitals improved in all three infection measures compared to 2022, while 66% improved on at least one. Sixteen percent of facilities continued to get worse or didn’t improve.

Dental patients can be at risk of contracting nontuberculous mycobacteria or other infections from dental waterlines that have a high amount of bacteria in their water supple, the CDC warns.

A health care-acquired or “associated” infection is one that wasn’t present when a patient was admitted to the hospital, but developed due to poor infection control. Leapfrog calculates its ...