Healdsburg District Hospital in California undertook a daylong effort Oct. 26 to test all of its staff members for COVID-19 after 14 employees contracted the virus this month, reports KTVU. 

The CDC unveiled a national infection control training initiative Oct. 28 known as Project Firstline to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases in healthcare settings.

Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan health system is working with its local health department to investigate an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at St. Joseph Medical Center, reports The News Tribune. 

As New York sees an increase in COVID-19 clusters, hospital and nursing home visits are banned in areas designated as COVID-19 red zones, reports syracuse.com. 

Antibiotic use has increased at Veterans Affairs hospitals during the pandemic, reversing a four-year trend of reduced use, according to a study presented at IDWeek 2020.

The Michigan Department of Public Health and Human Services will provide $50,000 in COVID-19 relief funding to make free infection control training available for direct care workers, the state said Oct. 22.

About one-third of states require hospitals to offer employees flu shots or track their vaccination statuses to help boost flu vaccination rates in healthcare settings, according to a new ranking from Kaiser Family Foundation.

An outbreak potentially tied to 57 COVID-19 cases at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital has been contained, according to a hospital news release Oct. 16.

California officials cited Kaiser Permante for failing to treat COVID-19 as an airborne disease at a psychiatric facility in Santa Clara, reports CALMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom.

Fifty-nine cases have been reported in a COVID-19 outbreak at Huntington, W.Va.-based Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital as of Oct. 14, reports WV MetroNews. 

The novel coronavirus can survive on common surfaces for up to 28 days, according to an Australian study published Oct. 12 in Virology Journal.

A COVID-19 cluster at Attleboro, Mass.-based Sturdy Memorial Hospital has expanded from three cases to 14, reports The Boston Globe. 

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited more than 25 healthcare facilities for COVID-19 safety violations, totaling fines of at least $285,000.

Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital has now reported 52 COVID-19 cases tied to an outbreak affecting two inpatient units.

Attleboro, Mass.-based Sturdy Memorial Hospital banned visitors Oct. 1 after announcing a COVID-19 cluster involving three patients. 

The FDA is warning healthcare providers of a potential infection risk linked to heater-cooler devices used during cardiothoracic surgery.

Timothy Ray Brown — the first person to be cured of HIV in 2018 — has died of cancer at age 54, according to the International AIDS Society.

Nurses at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital are calling for more safety measures as a COVID-19 cluster tied to the hospital climbs from 19 to at least 42 cases, according to NBC10 Boston.

Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital is working to curb the spread of COVID-19 after reporting a cluster of cases in two of its medical-surgical units, reports The Boston Globe. 

An analysis of global research shows that patient bathrooms, staff and public areas of hospitals contain high amounts of SARS-CoV-2 in the air, although the infectivity of these samples is still unclear.