Recent research conducted by a team at Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Medical School debunks conventional wisdom regarding where is best to treat elderly pneumonia patients. The U-M study ...

Healthcare providers, including ambulatory surgery centers, are coming under increased pressures to maintain a high level of infection prevention and control. In order to achieve this, ASCs must ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

Nursing homes are facing persistent hurdles when working to implement adequate infection control practices, a new study has found. But at the same time, there are areas of opportunity operators can ...

There is a direct correlation between how well an infection prevention program is staffed and a facility’s rate of infection. Your reaction might be “duh,” but the scientific proof was elusive — until ...