Just a week before the beginning of Patient Safety Week 2019, a disheartening report has come out of the CDC showing that no significant reductions...
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The newest Netflix break-out star isn’t an actress, a chef, or a comedian. She’s Marie Kondo, an expert at helping people declutter, organize, and...
Well before the current administration recognizedthe opioid crisis as a national public health emergency, healthcare workers have been aware of the...
The New Year could not be complete without a range of predictions about the 12 months to come. In today's post, we'll bring together five of the...
Anyone who reads about the recent fatal healthcare-associated infections in New Jersey shares in the nation's sorrow at the loss of children to a...
This is the week that the international infection prevention community has selected to bring attention to what they do every day: Help protect...
It's not a journal article. It's not an oral presentation. But it IS a little of both. In today's post we'll discuss the ins and outs of conference...
This fall, some proposed changes in the way hospitals and other healthcare facilities report data to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
The world shared a collective sigh of relief as word spread that the last of the trapped Thai soccer team was rescued from their 17-day underground...
Since the inception of the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP) in 2015, those of us involved in the world of hospital infection...
It's that time of year when we all put on our prognosticator's hats and try to predict what the next year will bring. There are numerous entities...
2017 proved to be a big year for bacteria in the news, and not just in healthcare! Supported by advances in genomic sequencing and other...