Facilities must 'identify, isolate, and inform' during the resumption of operations. Editor's note: This article by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care was originally published by ...

Despite CDC recommendations, there is no law requiring infection prevention training for any construction worker or other vendor working in a health care facility. An alarming 5 percent of all ...

During a state survey of Cleburne (Texas) Surgical Center this past spring, Suzette Rieger, RN, clinical coordinator of the ASC, says she and the surveyor reviewed the ASC’s infection control ...

While ASCs continually have much lower infection rates than hospitals, there are still some common lapses, especially in hand hygiene, safe injection practices and environmental cleaning. “We are ...

Working with surgeons, operating room directors, service line leaders, lean practitioners and other industry leaders, I have heard about great pre-, intra- and post-operative risk prevention efforts.

Tyler Kemp, of Eveleth, puts plastic over a window as Porcha Shadd, left, and Nick Gant tape up a larger sheet as carpenters get training on the Infection Control Risk Assessment practices at the ...

MOKENA, IL — ASSE/IAPMO/ANSI Series 12000-2021, Professional Qualifications Standard for Water Management and Infection Control Risk Assessment for Building Systems, has been designated as an American ...

CliniWorks announced a strategic alliance between its subsidiary CliniWorks (Israel) and Pfizer to develop a population health management platform solution. A recent analysis of 2012 Medicare payment ...