Surveyors didn’t always punish healthcare organizations (HCO) if one of their employees was caught not following proper hand hygiene rules. So long as the organization had an otherwise compliant hand ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given hospitals aggressive goals on HAI reduction. By 2020, the department wants CAUTI rates to be cut 50% in acute care hospitals, long-term care...

Editor's note: The following is an edited Q&A from the HCPro webcast "How to Establish an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program." Speaker Jennifer Pisano, MD, is medical director of the anti...

You probably know that CMS doesn’t reimburse for hospital-acquired infections (HAI), including catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), the most common healthcare-associated conditi...

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During this three-hour virtual workshop, Carole Eldridge, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, and Virginia Hall, DNP, MSN/Ed. RN, CNE, will provide a step-by-step guide to setting up a successful and sustainable ev...

We're trying to get a potential Suicide Prevention in Hospitals book approved and need your help. If you have a minute, please email bward@hcpro.com with your responses to the following. Is ...

The study’s researchers recommend that organizations should stop using performance measures until they can be assessed and revised...

The Joint Commission is the latest healthcare heavy-hitter to call for better protection of healthcare workers, announcing on Tuesday the creation of Sentinel Event Alert 59, which addresses violence&...