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Consider a staff position "as important as the medical staff [since] an unclean and unsafe medical facility cannot function properly" (Healthsource,...
Posts about Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs):
More than 1.5 million Americans reside in nursing homes, where an estimated 2 million infections occur each year. Infection prevention and control...
Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACHs) are facilities serving only patients with serious medical conditions who need at least 25 days of ICU-level...
Nursing homes provide an invaluable service to our nation. Caring for elderly and medically vulnerable patients, nursing homes face unprecedented...
Mental health facilities, including behavioral health and addiction treatment centers, present unique challenges to infection control. While most...
What do you do if you discover that 50% of your healthcare residents are colonized with a multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO)? You'd probably adjust...
We've covered Candida auris in this blog before. Not only has it been one of the pathogens of concern cited by the Centers for Disease Control and...
In a widely-circulated interview, President Biden stated that the pandemic was, in effect, over. While not an official statement and also clarified...
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...
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...
Elderly patients needing support for daily activities present unique challenges to the long-term care facilities who care for them. Today's post will...
As we age, our bodies go through changes that can make us more susceptible to disease, injury, and infection. Individuals who experience the greatest...