Category: Infection Control

Recently discharged hospital patients have higher risks of spreading superbug infections to their family and caregivers following hospitalization, a recent University of Iowa study found.

A strain of bacteria that causes severe and sometimes drug-resistant infections has been detected in all six World Health Organization regions, the group reported July 31. 

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has recognized eight hospitals for excellence in antimicrobial stewardship.

A former sterile processing manager at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City (Mo.) has filed state and federal complaints alleging sterile processing practices at the hospital are out of compliance with regulations, ABC affiliate KMBC reported July 23.&…

Six bacterial antimicrobial-resistant hospital-onset infections have increased by a combined 20% since 2019, a CDC report found. 

Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health are notifying about 2,400 patients of a potential exposure to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV due to a physician’s inadequate infection control practices.

Miami-based Jackson Memorial Hospital has reduced its hospital acquired infections by 40% in about nine months with two changes.

After piloting new Clostridioides difficile guidelines for nine months, Memorial Healthcare System reduced unnecessary treatments by 20.1%, according to a study published June 27 in the American Journal of Infection Control. 

Southern California Hospital at Culver City has been free of central line-associated bloodstream infections for over 1,000 days and free of catheter-associated urinary tract infections for 750 days, it announced June 26.

Among the busy halls of emergency departments nationwide, a silent battle against antimicrobial resistance is unfolding.