Category: Infection Control

New Mexico hospitals have the highest central line-associated bloodstream infection rate in the country while hospitals in North Dakota have the lowest, CDC data shows. 

Hospitals in Alaska have the lowest Clostridioides difficile infection rate in the country, CDC data shows. 

Two infectious disease experts from Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital were recognized among Fast Company’s 14th annual list of the most creative people in business.

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has recognized eight infection preventionists with its Heroes of Infection Prevention Award, the organization said Aug. 2. 

The CDC found 1 in 10 infections caused by a type of multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogen are community-associated, occurring in patients who had not been exposed to healthcare-linked risks, like hospitalizations.

Twenty-three infants in Tennessee were diagnosed with parechovirus over a six-week period this spring, NBC News reported July 28.

The CDC is warning physicians and public health experts of a potentially deadly bacterium that was detected in U.S. soil and water samples for the first time.

The pandemic has put a significant toll on infection prevention professionals working in hospitals and other healthcare settings nationwide, according to a study published July 13 in the American Journal of Infection Control.

A patient at Cleveland Clinic defended the system’s enforcement of its mask mandate July 13 and said he felt a previous patient’s complaint of lax enforcement was an exception, “not the rule” at Cleveland Clinic. 

Antimicrobial-resistant infections have increased during the pandemic, with deaths rising by 15 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to the CDC’s “COVID-19: US Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance, Special Report 2022.”