Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment has proposed rules intended to boost healthcare employee vaccinations at healthcare facilities, according to a Denver Post report.
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Daily bathing with chlorhexidine may reduce the risk of bloodstream infections, including central line-associated infections, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and Elsevier | MC Strategies have launched a comprehensive, evidence-based online nursing course to help nurses improve safe administration of medications commonly used in critical care, according to a news release.
Hospitals participating in the hospital inpatient quality reporting program have until March 1 to review data reported under the new Medicare spending per beneficiary measure, according to an AHA News Now report.
Blood transfusions may be a risk factor for surgical site infections in female patients who undergo abdominal hysterectomies, according to a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Here are the top 26 conditions with the highest average expense per patient across three hospital departments in 2009, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The statistics are categorized by hospital department.
The U.S. primary care workforce was comprised of approximately 295,000 primary care professionals in 2010, according to research findings published by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research.
The president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is in the midst of a billion-dollar dispute with the cancer center of the University of Pennsylvania, which claims he walked away with groundbreaking research and used it…
White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles has been accused of patient-dumping and now faces a lawsuit alleging elder abuse, false imprisonment and hospital negligence, according to a Los Angeles Times report.