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

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is offering a free online course for health care providers on infection control practices, hand hygiene, pneumonia and personal protective equipment, ...

CMS requires physicians to be included in infection control education, which is why Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn., puts its physicians through infection control orientation. The ASC ...

The CDC and the American Nurses Association jointly launched a nursing education network for infection control and prevention. The Nursing Infection Control Education Network consists of 20 specialty ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its third year, the need for infection prevention and control (IPC) interventions and guideline adherence remains urgent. To help nurses become better equipped, ...

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 ...

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

First came the federal requirement that every nursing home must have an infection control preventionist on staff. Now, a government watchdog says that minimum training requirements should be ...

The NFL continues to closely monitor coronavirus (COVID-19) developments and has been in contact with medical and public health officials, including the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for ...

Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital (Hospital President Kim Hyung-soo) received the Korea Centers for Disease Control and ...