hospital-acquired conditions

Major increases were found in 2020 compared to 2019 in four serious infection types: central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary...

A growing number of health systems are offering people with more serious health conditions hospital-level treatment in the comfort of...

On any given day, one in every 31 hospital patients has an infection that was contracted during their stay, according...

Memorial Healthcare budgets to implement Intelligent Observations' sensor-driven approach systemwide.

Laboratory workers and clinicians must remain vigilant in regard to needlesticks, sharps safety, and bloodborne infection prevention.

Hospital workers around the country report frustrating failures by management to notify them when they have been exposed to co-workers...

The situation has prompted debate in the health care community about just what standards medical facilities should use before ordering...

An outbreak would demand peak performance from America's medical professionals ? especially in hospitals. But many of the facilities that...

More than two million people living in long-term care settings in the U.S. may be at heightened risk because of...

CMS this week identified 786 hospitals that will receive lower payments for a year under the Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program.

An investigation determined that some gowns made since September 2018 were produced in unapproved locations with unsanitary conditions.

A government investigation found that the New Jersey hospital's transplant team was failing to learn from surgical errors.