Steve Corl, administrator at Mackinaw Surgery Center in Saginaw, Mich., explains how the surgery center selected an infection control officer and created greater infection control awareness to meet ...

BSM Senior Consultant Crissy Benze, MSN, RN, shared four commonly overlooked infection control policies and procedures with The Joint Commission. Here’s what clinical directors and infection control ...

Many of the nation’s most prominent infection-control groups on Wednesday released a new set of “consensus” guidelines to help curb the spread of six potentially fatal facility-acquired infections.

The World Health Organization and UNICEF have developed global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings.  While the WHO has long ...

The leader of Leapfrog, as well as the head of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, discussed current hand hygiene protocols and compliance, and why hospitals may ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions has released an updated set of guidelines for infection control in cardiovascular catheterization laboratories. Release of these revised ...

Hoping to improve infection control in hospitals, the nation’s top epidemiological societies joined Wednesday with the American Hospital Association and the Joint Commission, which accredits hospitals ...

An incoming Biden administration could quickly implement new infection control standards that would require stronger protections for healthcare workers. House Democrats have pushed to require the ...

Opponents have said the changes, detailed in a presentation in June, are based on a flawed evidence review and omit key infection control tools. Some have called attention to a CDC approval process ...

The Department of Health and Human Services this week released official guidelines for the reduction of six common hospital acquired infections (HAIs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...