There are 6,093 hospitals in the United States. Those facilities can be divided in a variety of categories depending on size, location, demographics,...
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Think back to the last time you or a loved one was a patient in a hospital or healthcare facility. What things do you remember most? Is it the stress...
Who obsesses over the safety of a community's environment? Who knows all the building codes, chemical exposure limits, and fire retardant additives...
Bacteria have been around for, oh, 3.5 billion years or so. They didn't achieve this longevity without collecting a few tricks up their sleeves....
So much of the success of infection control and prevention teams is the establishment of routines that promote best practices: Easy-to-access hand...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report addressing the impact COVID-19 has had on antimicrobial resistance....
In a previous posts, we explored the idea of evidence-based design, the place where science and aesthetics join forces to help patients and...
Overbed tables are essential in patient rooms. They serve as a surface for food trays, and can hold personal items such as phones, computers, or...
Among the many lessons we all learned from the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was that our nation's long-term care facilities struggle to protect...
Motivated by reason, civil duty, and patriotism, representatives from the Colonies gathered in Philadelphia to put their names on an historic...
In Washington, a panel is meeting to discuss the future of the US Public Health System. Public health systems came under increased scrutiny during...
Our efforts to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may have hit a challenging conundrum. On the one hand, we know that handwashing is...