Multisociety guidance recommended that nursing homes employ an infection preventionist and invest in training and preparedness.

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a free training resource on best infection control practices for physicians, other clinicians, patient advocates and medical students.

The CDC released three new online courses in infection prevention developed by a team led by the American Hospital Association’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The CDC/STRIVE curriculum focuses ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . National infection prevention experts, led by the CDC’s Health Research & Educational Trust, have developed a ...

First came the federal requirement that every nursing home must have an infection control preventionist on staff. Now, a government watchdog says that minimum training requirements should be ...

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 ...

The best way to show the federal government takes seriously the importance of infection control in nursing homes, especially in the wake of the pandemic, is to require a full-time specialist. That’s ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released the Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. Melissa Schaefer, MD, medical officer in ...

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...

The CDC unveiled a national infection control training initiative Oct. 28 known as Project Firstline to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases in healthcare settings. The $180 million ...