Category: Infection Control

Auburn (N.Y.) Community Hospital has restored its universal mask mandate only a month after officially ending the policy, ABC affiliate WSYR reported Aug. 18.

Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., reinstated a mask mandate Aug. 17 amid an uptick in staff out sick with COVID-19 and an increase in patients testing positive, according to local news outlets. 

Cases of Chagas, a disease caused by a parasite, have been steadily rising in the United States, but only 1 percent of cases are estimated to have been identified, NBC News reported Aug. 15.

Becker’s has compiled a list of the hospitals with the highest and lowest rates of postoperative sepsis using CMS data released July 26.

It’s a good question. 

A new study found two in every five deaths in the Americas involved infection associated with antimicrobial resistance.

Another individual who contracted Klebsiella pneumoniae at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center has died, bringing the total to 10 patient deaths, the hospital confirmed July 27. 

NYC Health + Hospitals led clinicians through a Marburg virus training Aug. 2 to test the health system’s “ability to identify and isolate ‘patients’ with simulated Marburg virus symptoms and safely transport them,” using hazmat suits and proper infect…

Baton Rouge, La.-based Our Lady of the Lake Health has deployed a diagnostic tool capable of detecting sepsis within 10 minutes in the hopes of saving lives from what is often dubbed a “silent killer” in hospital environments — causing 1 in 3 hospital …

At Northwell Health, leaders don’t discount the rare causes or sources of hospital-acquired infections.