The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new ...

The regulation governing the F880 tag requires that facilities develop and implement ongoing infection control and prevention programs and written policies and procedures for infection control to ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in ...

About 1 in 4 for-profit nursing homes across the country are likely not complying with federal regulations surrounding infection control staff, increasing health and safety risks for residents and ...

Proper infection prevention and control is considered among the most important practices for avoiding cross-contamination and the spread of contagious disease. Here is a look at the deficiencies that ...

The federal government is considering rolling back infection control requirements in U.S. nursing homes – even as the long-term-care industry's residents and workers are overwhelmed by the coronavirus ...

More than 80 percent of Nevada’s nursing homes have failed to meet federal standards for infection prevention and control in the past three years, Medicare data shows. Records show 90-plus citations ...

Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday. Any COVID-19 or infection control concerns ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 200 long-term care facilities in Ohio that were hit with fines for inadequate infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic also got federal incentive payments worth millions ...

This story is part of an investigation by The Enquirer. Read more about it here. Inspectors cited Highlands Post-Acute for infection control issues between mid-July and the end of October, one of 12 ...