CDC reports a major surge in NDM-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections that may defy most antibiotics.

A CDC study shows a 460% surge in deadly NDM superbug infections, exposing urgent gaps in testing, treatment, and hospital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

NDM-CRE belongs to a group of bacteria called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), which are resistant to some of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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