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Projects to improve the patient's environment are critical to optimizing patient outcomes. Getting rid of moisture-trapping materials, opening rooms...
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The Golden Age of Microbiology, Part 3
Exploration of the Golden Age of Microbiology would not be complete without a look at how its discoveries impacted hospitals and medical care....
Mental health facilities, including behavioral health and addiction treatment centers, present unique challenges to infection control. While most...
Last week's post introduced the work of Louis Pasteur, the father of microbiology. It was not long after Pasteur proposed that microorganisms were to...
You go to a professional conference and learn about an exciting new medical innovation. You think it might work at your facility, so you go ahead and...
Just over 150 years ago, the existence of bacteria was merely a hypothesis. Many scientists still believed that food spoilage and human infections...
Home health care has been growing steadily for the past decade and shows no sign of slowing. A growing number of health care services are being...
In last week's post, we described a pervasive disease that so affected the global population that it found its way into visual, musical, and literary...
In healthcare, we want fast innovation and instant implementation - but we also want our safety to be assured, and for our care to make sense...
Before we knew about germ theory and the microorganisms that caused disease, the illnesses that afflicted millions were mysteries. They acquired...
We all experienced a huge learning curve thanks to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The general public learned about infection control, sanitation, and PPE....