Recurring Clostridioides difficile infections could be costing hospitals millions, an AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center study found. The study, published Sept. 29 in Cambridge Core, included 29 patients from Pomano, N.J.-based AtlantiCare Regional who had three or more inpatient admissions due…
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A total of 463 hospitals in the U.S. have a Clostridioides difficile infection rate of zero, based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS. Measures are developed by the CDC and collected through the National Healthcare Safety Network. The measures…
College Park-based University of Maryland researchers created an AI tool that can scan electronic medical records and identify patients at high risk of being infected by H5N1 avian flu. The team used a generative AI large language model to analyze…
Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based HCA Healthcare’s Los Robles Health System has created a tool that acts as a “smoke detector for sepsis,” according to an Aug. 26 news release shared with Becker’s. The algorithmic tool, Sepsis Prediction and Optimization of Therapy,…
A law firm filed a lawsuit Aug. 20 against a New York City hospital’s construction company, alleging the company failed to treat bacteria-infected water in its cooling towers, leading to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak. City officials have identified live Legionella…
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A cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City has now led to the death of three people and sickened more than 60, The New York Times reported Aug. 6. The outbreak was first detected July 15 and has been…
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta cut its catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the pediatric intensive care unit to zero — and maintained a rate of zero for more than 500 days — with a new strategy. Here is what to know:…
One person has died and 22 people have fallen ill in a Legionnaires’ disease cluster in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, city health officials reported July 30. Legionnaires’ is a type of pneumonia caused by the bacteria Legionella.…
The CDC has removed physician groups, public health professionals and infectious disease experts from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ working groups, Bloomberg reported Aug. 1. Here are four things to know: 1. Under the change, external experts will be…
Providence Medford (Ore.) Medical Center recently paused endoscopy procedures for 11 days after identifying quality-control lapses in its cleaning and sanitization process. “We recently learned that some quality-control steps and related processes in endoscopy cleaning were not completed in some…