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 ...

Wolters Kluwer Health announces that KLAS Research has recognized Sentri7 ® clinical surveillance solutions as Best in KLAS ® for both Pharmacy Surveillance as well as Infection Control and Monitoring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bacterial and fungal infections appeared to defy stricter prevention measures ...

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 ...

By Chris Pursey, Gerflor Healthcare Key Account Manager. In today’s complex healthcare environment, NHS specifiers benefit ...

Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday. Any COVID-19 or infection control concerns ...

Infection control numbers at a Hertfordshire NHS Trust are “not on trajectory’ according to a report, with 42 ...