Elderly patients needing support for daily activities present unique challenges to the long-term care facilities who care for them. Today's post will...
Posts about HAIs (6):
As we age, our bodies go through changes that can make us more susceptible to disease, injury, and infection. Individuals who experience the greatest...
The Wall Street Journal addressed the growing concern over infection control in America's nursing homes, citing research from a recent paper from the...
Most babies are born healthy. Delivered in a hospital, a birthing center, a home, or even a stable, they are bundled up, fed, loved, and go on to...
COVID-19 and other infectious pathogens continue to make headlines, drawing our attention to the technologies being developed to fight these germs....
There are may different pathogens that cause HAIs. Researchers have studied which of these infectious agents tend to cause infections, how those...
In time for New Years resolutions, let consider ways we can improve terminal cleaning! Terminal cleaning is a thorough, deep-cleaning of a patient...
When we enter a hospital room as a patient, we are seeing the room at its cleanest. The room has just been scrubbed down during what is called...
Surface disinfection has become the new normal. Today's post takes the concept of a high school geometry proof to connect contaminated environments...
Whether someone in your home has been sick, or you simply want to reduce the spread of outside germs into your quarantine environment, one of the...
Consumers have a difficult time navigating the data that is available to help them make decisions about safe hospital choices. Today we are going to...
In our series on Clostridioides difficile, we explored the bacteria that causes this lethal hospital-acquired infection, the resulting infectious...