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Outpatient Services and Infection Control: Moving Forward [Part 5]

What the Nation's Nursing Shortage Means for Infection Control

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: Tracking Infections [Part 4]

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: What We Don't Know is Hurting Us [Part 3]

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: What is Ambulatory Care? [Part 2]

This series on outpatient services and infection control can seem rather dismal. Thankfully, most outpatient facilities are safe and only a small...

We recently heard a chilling story: An ER doctor shared that he was treating many of his patients in the waiting room - diagnosing, providing...

So far in our series on infection control in ambulatory care settings, we covered the types of facilities and how they are regulated. One huge topic...

We don’t know enough about infection in ambulatory care centers.

Any kind of medical treatment received outside of a hospital admission is considered ambulatory care, or outpatient care. This category of healthcare...

In late January of 2016, the CDC issued a health advisory “urging dialysis providers and facilities toassess and improve infection control practices

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses a Prospective Payment System (PPS) to provide incentives for healthcare providers to be...

A new market for healthcare is experiencing a bit of a boom: Free-standing emergency rooms (FSERs). These facilities provide 24-hour-a-day emergency...

The general public has never been more aware of handwashing, thanks to the COVID pandemic. We all got a glimpse into the world of the healthcare...

There are 6,093 hospitals in the United States. Those facilities can be divided in a variety of categories depending on size, location, demographics,...

Who obsesses over the safety of a community's environment? Who knows all the building codes, chemical exposure limits, and fire retardant additives...

So much of the success of infection control and prevention teams is the establishment of routines that promote best practices: Easy-to-access hand...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

Outpatient Services and Infection Control: Moving Forward [Part 5]

What the Nation's Nursing Shortage Means for Infection Control

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: Tracking Infections [Part 4]

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: What We Don't Know is Hurting Us [Part 3]

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: What is Ambulatory Care? [Part 2]

Outpatient Services and Infection Control: Moving Forward [Part 5]

What the Nation's Nursing Shortage Means for Infection Control

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: Tracking Infections [Part 4]

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: What We Don't Know is Hurting Us [Part 3]

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: What is Ambulatory Care? [Part 2]

Outpatient Services and Infection Prevention: An Introduction [Part 1]

What's New In CMS' Final Inpatient Rule?

Free-Standing Emergency Rooms and Infection Control

Hand Hygiene: The Latest Global Statistics

Types of Hospitals in the US

The Role of the Industrial Hygienist in Healthcare

Construction, Renovation, and Infection Prevention