A staff physician at Google sent an email to employees that a worker who had been in one of its Mountain View, Calif., buildings had been diagnosed with measles, according to Buzzfeed News.

The CDC issued a food safety alert asking consumers to avoid precut melons, which may be the source of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Carrau infections.

A Miami critical care nurse and a wound ostomy team in Iowa City are the recipients of this year's awards for extraordinary, compassionate care presented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the DAISY foundation.

Some Ohio lawmakers are calling for increased hospital oversight in the wake of a patient death investigation at Mount Carmel West hospital in Columbus, Ohio, reports The Columbus Dispatch.

A lawsuit filed against Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare claims former paramedic Michael Senisch was wrongfully terminated after honoring a patient's wishes to refuse recommended medical treatment, reports CBS Philly.

Police are investigating the death of an elderly man who died after getting into a fight with another patient at a long-term care facility in Florida, reports News4Jax.

Police are investigating the death of a Louisiana nurse as a homicide after a coroner concluded she suffered fatal injuries from a patient attack, reports The Advocate.

Board engagement is crucial for healthcare organizations seeking to create cultures of safety and quality. However, many boards are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with quality oversight and instead focus on other aspects of health system performance, like financial metrics.

Patients colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus can contaminate emergency department environments, according to a study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

The multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O103 infections has spread to 109 cases, up from 96 cases as of April 9, the CDC reports. Ground beef may be the source of the outbreak, the agency said.

Many patients with late-stage cancers pursue receive aggressive treatment options instead of end-of-life care, according to a study published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

Five parents anonymously filed a lawsuit April 15 against the New York City Department of Health over the city's decision to make measles vaccinations mandatory for some zip codes, reports the New York Post.

New research shows that applying alcohol-based hand rub in 15 seconds using a three-step technique is as effective for hand hygiene as the protocol recommended by the World Health Organization, which involves six steps and is 30 seconds long, according to the Science Daily.

Police are investigating the death of a nurse who died about a week after being attacked by a patient at Baton Rouge (La.) General Medical Center's Mid City campus, reports CBS affiliate WAFB 9.

The CDC confirmed 90 new measles cases in the past week, bringing the annual total to 555 infections as of April 11, reports CNBC.

When hospitals transfer patients between facilities, departments and EMS environments, fragmented or imperfect communication can drag down efficiency and endanger patient outcomes. However, hospitals can leverage regional communication platforms to streamline collaboration and reduce the risk of errors during care transition.

The nurse manager role may need to be redesigned to appeal to nurses from Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) and millennials (born between 1981 and 2000), according to a viewpoint article in The American Journal of Nursing.

Some hospital patients contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria on their hands or nostrils at the start of a hospital stay, which highlights the need for patient hand-hygiene programs, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Duodenoscopes contain higher levels of contamination than expected after reprocessing, the FDA said in an April 12 safety communication.

Healthcare workers in intensive care units regularly miss hand hygiene opportunities, according to a study presented at this month's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands.