Health.Care | An Educational Blog

Hospitals and Evidence-Based Design Part 1: Early History

7 Ways ASHE's new ICRA 2.0 Takes Out the Guesswork

The Golden Age of Microbiology, Part 3

The Golden Age of Microbiology: Part 2

Fast-Tracking Medical Innovations: 5 Things Your Facility Can Expect

With life, there is illness. Some of the earliest examples of life on Earth, bacteria, show evidence of invasion by viruses. Our earliest recorded...

Projects to improve the patient's environment are critical to optimizing patient outcomes. Getting rid of moisture-trapping materials, opening rooms...

Exploration of the Golden Age of Microbiology would not be complete without a look at how its discoveries impacted hospitals and medical care....

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...

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....

April 11th is National Pet Day! Let's take a moment to focus on the intersection between infection and household pets. There are many sides to this...

If those of us involved in the world of infection control and prevention lived in Ancient Greece, we would have surely found a home in the followers...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

Hospitals and Evidence-Based Design Part 1: Early History

7 Ways ASHE's new ICRA 2.0 Takes Out the Guesswork

The Golden Age of Microbiology, Part 3

The Golden Age of Microbiology: Part 2

Fast-Tracking Medical Innovations: 5 Things Your Facility Can Expect

Hospitals and Evidence-Based Design Part 1: Early History

7 Ways ASHE's new ICRA 2.0 Takes Out the Guesswork

The Golden Age of Microbiology, Part 3

The Golden Age of Microbiology: Part 2

Fast-Tracking Medical Innovations: 5 Things Your Facility Can Expect

The Golden Age of Microbiology: Part 1

Home Health Care and Infection Prevention: Preparing for the Future

The Pathogens That Made History: Consumption, Part 2

The Pathogens That Made History: Consumption, Part 1

8 Ways to Gain Momentum: From COVID to HAIs

National Pet Day: Pets and Pathogens

Hygieia: Protector of the Infection Preventionist