At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 16, Dotty J. Bollinger, RN, JD, COO, and Lisa Melamed, JD, staff attorney at Laser Spine Institute, ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma at a July press conference. An infection control training program aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes is now available for frontline facility ...

Mary Duncan, R.N., MSN, CIC, is the senior director of Infection Prevention for the UAB Health System, with 18 years of experience implementing best practices at various health facilities. Her ...

Total, or hospital-wide, surveillance-collection of comprehensive data on all infections in the facility, with the aim of correcting problems as they arise. This is labor intensive. Surveillance by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of programs surveyed, 90% reported some IPC/HE training, whereas 33.3% reported a dedicated IPC/HE training ...

MOKENA, ILL. — For the first time, ASSE International will offer the opportunity to become ASSE Certified during its 2017 annual meeting, held Nov. 7-10, 2017, at the Hilton Palacio del Rio in San ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s latest report on Kadima Rehabilitation and Nursing in Drums notes that the facility did not have anyone serving as an infection preventionist during a recent ...