Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a critical component of healthcare delivery and nurses play a crucial role in preventing and controlling the spread of infections within healthcare settings.

New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked ...

Many of nursing homes’ infection prevention and control weaknesses initially exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic still demand additional support and resources, researchers warn in a new JAMDA study. The ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of ...

About 1 in 4 for-profit nursing homes across the country are likely not complying with federal regulations surrounding infection control staff, increasing health and safety risks for residents and ...

The New York City Health Department is kicking off a new program that aims to keep COVID-19 infections down at nursing homes. AP/John Minchillo The New York City Health Department is developing a new ...

A nursing home resident with COVID-19 symptoms is transferred into an ambulance in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 5. By the end of August, at least 53,000 U.S. nursing home residents had died of COVID-19.

A group of healthcare societies has issued updated infection control guidance for nursing homes, marking the guideline’s first update in 17 years. The guidance was published Oct. 28 in Infection ...

The federal government is considering rolling back infection control requirements in U.S. nursing homes – even as the long-term-care industry's residents and workers are overwhelmed by the coronavirus ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Hundreds of Texas nursing homes violated standards for controlling infectious diseases since the start of COVID-19 pandemic, according to records from the Texas Health and Human ...

As of July 12, there have been 142,231 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 38,518 deaths in nursing homes.[i] For this reason, CMS recently called nursing homes “ground zero for COVID-19” and announced ...

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 ...