The fungal infection mainly spreads among vulnerable patients in hospitals, long-term care facilities and skilled nursing sites. Somewhere between 30 percent and 60 percent of people infected with C.

Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD, has been named Mass General Brighams’s inaugural chief of infection control, the Somerville, Mass.-based system said June 28. She was also recently appointed to a federal ...

The CDC reports that number has been dropping since the COVID-19 pandemic. The post US hospitals report broad infection ...

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 ...

Infection control stands as a cornerstone of modern healthcare systems, safeguarding patients, healthcare professionals, and the community at large. By implementing comprehensive and rigorous measures ...

OIG new data brief's findings reflect a need to reexamine staffing minimums. Findings in a recent data brief from the Office of Inspector General looking at nursing homes with high infection rates ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that KLAS Research has recognized the Sentri7 ® clinical surveillance solution as Best in KLAS ® for infection control and ...

Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague U.S. nursing homes, a new government report finds. But the problems didn't end there: The report, issued Thursday ...

In the final report of a three-part series published last year about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing homes, the Office of the Inspector General found “monumental and ongoing staffing ...