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COVID-19 cost U.S. 9 million years of life expectancy

December 19, 2025

Infection Control

The COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed more than 660,000 lives in the U.S. has also cut aggregate life expectancy here by more than 9 million years, according to a study published Monday in Annals of ...

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Nashville General hospital targeting social determinants of health and health equity

December 19, 2025

Health Equity

Social determinants of health such as food security and housing have a greater impact on health outcomes than clinical care. Health equity has become a hot topic in healthcare during the coronavirus p...

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Nearly 30% of RNs are at risk of leaving their organization, new analysis reveals

December 19, 2025

Workplace safety, Infection Control

The study also revealed several trends, including: New hires who don’t have a connection with their team, managers, or organization are at the greatest risk for turnover. About one in five nurse...

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How Nurses are Urging the Unvaccinated to Reconsider

December 19, 2025

Infection Control

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has launched Hear Us Out, a nationwide effort to show the COVID-19 pandemic from frontline nurses’ perspective and urge those who have yet to be...

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Don’t gift surveyors the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of hazardous holiday decorations

October 08, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety

Has your staff started dragging out the holiday decorations yet? Yes, it’s time for you to be Scrooge and remind them that while decorations can be fun for patients they can also pose a deadly fire ha...

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Improving healthcare during the post-COVID era

December 19, 2025

Quality & Errors, Infection Control

Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, has only ever wanted to serve in healthcare. Thirty years ago, she started a practice on the East Coast. In 1993, she joined Kaiser Permanente as a front-line internist. Over...

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U.S. prisons were COVID hothouses during pandemic first wave

December 19, 2025

Infection Control

Inmates in the nation’s prisons were more than three times as likely to contract COVID-19 and more than twice as likely to die from it during the first year of the pandemic, when compared with the ove...

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COVID-19 PHE is extended again, effective October 18

October 15, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

The national COVID-19 public health emergency has been extended for another 90 days. ...

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‘Are you going to keep me safe?’ hospital workers sound alarm on rising violence

December 19, 2025

Workplace safety

The San Leandro Hospital emergency department, where nurse Mawata Kamara works, went into lockdown recently when a visitor, agitated about being barred from seeing a patient due to COVID-19 restrictio...

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New IDSA President: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic Is not going anywhere fast’

December 19, 2025

Infection Control

The new president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) says his organization is focused mainly on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Daniel McQuillen, MD, took on the leading role at...

COVID-19 cost U.S. 9 million years of life expectancy

Nashville General hospital targeting social determinants of health and health equity

Nearly 30% of RNs are at risk of leaving their organization, new analysis reveals

How Nurses are Urging the Unvaccinated to Reconsider

Don’t gift surveyors the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of hazardous holiday decorations

Improving healthcare during the post-COVID era

U.S. prisons were COVID hothouses during pandemic first wave

COVID-19 PHE is extended again, effective October 18

‘Are you going to keep me safe?’ hospital workers sound alarm on rising violence

New IDSA President: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic Is not going anywhere fast’

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