Infection Control

Seattle Children's Hospital has filed a lawsuit to block the release of health department records regarding mold at its facility, according to court documents cited by King 5. 

The following hospitals had the highest and lowest rates of bloodstream infections after surgery in the U.S.

There is no evidence that the new strain of coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, can be passed on from pregnant women in their third trimesters to their unborn children, according to a study published in The Lancet.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections rose significantly in Tennessee between 2015 and 2017, and nearly a quarter were related to injection drug use, a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases shows.

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is closing its inpatient pediatric mental health unit, in part due to a lack of demand, reports the Chicago Tribune.

While a vast majority of executives and providers are concerned about drug diversion in U.S. hospitals, only 20 percent believe it is an issue where they work, according to a new survey commissioned by the BD Institute for Medication Management…

A gunman shot a police officer at Clinton, S.C.-based Laurens County Memorial Hospital April 11, representing the state's second hospital shooting in two days, reports The Post and Courier.

Ecolab Compliance Monitoring System (Ecolab Healthcare). The Compliance Monitoring System helps hospitals accurately monitor hand hygiene to encourage positive change by healthcare workers. By utilizing the patient zone, an electronically monitored zone set up around a patient’s bed to detect every…

Just one day after Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare announced plans to close its intermediate-care unit where a patient in a vegetative state gave birth, Arizona officials stepped in to keep the facility open, according to AZ Central.

Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare will close its 60-bed intermediate care facility where a patient in a vegetative state gave birth, according to Az Central.