Twenty years after the U.S. noted eight locally acquired malaria cases, Florida has confirmed four malaria infections and Texas has seen one in the last two months, the CDC said June 26.
Category: Infection Control
Boston hospital unit reinstates masking amid COVID-19 outbreak
Officials at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are monitoring a COVID-19 outbreak among patients and staff members.
How Mount Sinai Beth Israel keeps 3 HAI rates hovering at zero
When it comes to healthcare-acquired infections, a perfect score is zero. But while trying to keep HAIs — such as central line bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and Clostridioides difficile infections — as low as poss…
How Cedars-Sinai is prepping teams ahead of the next pandemic
Teams at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai’s Marina del Rey Hospital will soon undergo emergency department drills that will focus on infection control and prevention efforts if — or when — a patient shows up with symptoms indicative of a highly con…
Physician viewpoint: Don't abandon hospital mask policies, make them strategic
Physicians from Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston published a dissenting opinion in the New England Medical Journal on the widespread removal of mask policies in medical settings ac…
Reduce HAIs by going 'back to basics' + VR training, RN says
Hospitals nationwide continue to see a rise in HAIs, and technologies to aid infection control are increasingly coming on scene to help, but one nurse says that a combination of going “back to basics” along with these new innovations may be the best wa…
St. Jude opens infectious disease research department
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is creating a new department to study how infectious disease agents interact with human hosts.
St. Jude opens infectious disease research department
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is creating a new department to study how infectious disease agents interact with human hosts.
Human bite causes flesh-eating infection in Florida man
A 53-year-old Florida man was hospitalized after a family member’s bite resulted in the flesh-eating bacteria necrotizing fasciitis, NBC News reported June 9.
Kaiser workers ask California hospital to halt surgeries over equipment contamination concerns
More than 70 employees at Kaiser Zion Medical Center in San Diego have signed a petition for the facility to suspend surgeries over concerns of potential contamination of surgical trays, according to a June 6 report from The San Diego Union Tribune.&nb…
