Health.Care | An Educational Blog

The Chief Infection Prevention Officer: New Kid in the C-Suite?

Hospital Acquired Infections and Hospitals Acquired by Private Equity: The Dangerous Correlation

Frankincense and Myrrh... and Copper? Early Biocidal Materials Fit for a King

ESG: Impact on Hospitals and Infection Control

Cross-Functional Hospital Rooms and Infection Control: New Ideas, New Challenges

A recent article in Infection Control Today considered a C-suite position for infection prevention, its adoption nationwide, and its potential to...

About a quarter of American hospitals are for-profit, that is, they are operated to generate profit for owners and stakeholders. A subsection of...

In the traditional Christmas story from the New Testament, three Magi arrived from the East with three gifts for the newborn Jesus: Frankincense,...

Over the past years, and with an uptick since COVID, the acronym "ESG" has been popping up in discussions related to investing, corporate values, and...

Ever since the COVID pandemic, hospitals have become more adept at thinking outside the box, or rather, outside the patient room. For some hospitals,...

In the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, an omnipresent computer named HAL monitors all activity aboard a spacecraft on a critical mission. The...

After you make the case for the healthcare innovation in terms of patient and facility benefits, anticipating possible risks, and demonstrating...

Assessing the potential risks and benefits is an important step before proposing a new product or program for your facility. You need to anticipate...

The first step in making a case for a healthcare innovation is collecting the data that supports it. This data includes evidence the the innovation...

C. diff, or Clostridioides difficile, is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, endosporic, toxigenic, opportunistic, bacillus. Its scientific...

Every successful organization, from a small grassroots group to a global corporation, has a way for ideas to percolate through the system and find...

This post concludes our series on MRSA in support of MRSA Awareness Month.

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

The Chief Infection Prevention Officer: New Kid in the C-Suite?

Hospital Acquired Infections and Hospitals Acquired by Private Equity: The Dangerous Correlation

Frankincense and Myrrh... and Copper? Early Biocidal Materials Fit for a King

ESG: Impact on Hospitals and Infection Control

Cross-Functional Hospital Rooms and Infection Control: New Ideas, New Challenges

The Chief Infection Prevention Officer: New Kid in the C-Suite?

Hospital Acquired Infections and Hospitals Acquired by Private Equity: The Dangerous Correlation

Frankincense and Myrrh... and Copper? Early Biocidal Materials Fit for a King

ESG: Impact on Hospitals and Infection Control

Cross-Functional Hospital Rooms and Infection Control: New Ideas, New Challenges

HAL for Hand Hygiene: The Computers are Watching

Making the Case for Healthcare Innovation, Part 3: The Business Case

Making the Case for a Healthcare Innovation (Part 2): Assessing Risk

Making the Case for a Healthcare Innovation (Part 1): What Data Is Needed?

Clostridioides difficile: An Introduction

How To Make the Case for a Healthcare Innovation

MRSA: Locker Room Menace