TORONTO, July 10, 2020 /CNW/ - The COVID-19 pandemic presents a long-overdue opportunity for an assessment of the need to renovate outdated long-term care (LTC) facilities across the province, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

2015 was a critical year for infection prevention, with several “pivotal moments” shaking the industry and further emphasizing the need for integration into organizations’ quality assurance ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the 21st Annual Becker’s ASC Conference in Chicago on Oct. 24, Marcia Patrick, RN, surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, discussed how to ensure infection control ...

The Linders Health Institute™ is pleased to announce that registration has started for their special training course, Fundamentals of Infection Control Risk Assessment. The class will take place over ...

An "infection control breach" at a Denver, Colorado hospital may have put certain patients at risk of contracting HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, the state's department of public health and ...