Health.Care | An Educational Blog

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]

What's New In CMS' Final Inpatient Rule?

Free-Standing Emergency Rooms and Infection Control

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...

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...

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...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report addressing the impact COVID-19 has had on antimicrobial resistance....

In a previous posts, we explored the idea of evidence-based design, the place where science and aesthetics join forces to help patients and...

Overbed tables are essential in patient rooms. They serve as a surface for food trays, and can hold personal items such as phones, computers, or...

Among the many lessons we all learned from the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was that our nation's long-term care facilities struggle to protect...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

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]

What's New In CMS' Final Inpatient Rule?

Free-Standing Emergency Rooms and 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]

What's New In CMS' Final Inpatient Rule?

Free-Standing Emergency Rooms and Infection Control

Hand Hygiene: The Latest Global Statistics

The Role of the Industrial Hygienist in Healthcare

Construction, Renovation, and Infection Prevention

CDC's Latest Report: The Top Resistant Pathogens of Concern Spread on Surfaces

Professional Profile: Megan Kalina, EDAC, CID, LEED AP

Anatomy of an Overbed Table

CBIC Introduces New IP Certification for Long-Term Facilities