The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising alarm about a sharp spike in infections from dangerous ...

The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent ...

Here’s what sepsis is, what causes it and how it’s treated if it affects you or someone you love.

Systematic review shows hospital accreditation improves patient safety, reduces infection rates, boosts efficiency, and ...

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for ...

Healthcare Design will host the webinar “Designing Safe Spaces: Infection Control Strategies for Healthcare Facilities” on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 2 p.m. ET.

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 ...

Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired while at a health care facility and are not present at the time of admission. Nosocomial infections are many times also called hospital acquired ...

Clostridiumdifficile infection spreads easily and is a frequent cause of death among hospitalized older adults.

In a May 28 message to health system CEOs, two national healthcare safety organizations compared cutting infection control jobs to “dismantling the fire department during wildfire season.” The ...

Workers from a Servpro disaster recovery team enter the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., to begin cleaning and disinfecting the facility on March 11. (Ted S. Warren/AP) Nursing homes operated by ...

For weeks, the extent of the coronavirus takeover in many Georgia senior care facilities was hidden. Now, as entire facilities are starting to get tested, their operators and families are often ...