A security guard at Lynchburg (Va.) General Hospital shot a patient Monday after an altercation, according to the Lynchburg Police Department.
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Police are investigating a Jan. 11 stabbing of a security guard at Hartsville, S.C.-based Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, according to WBTW.com.
Police have arrested a man for assaulting a police officer at Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Jan. 9, according to PhillyVoice.com.
According to the CDC, an estimated 30,100 central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) occur in intensive care units and wards of U.S. acute care facilities each year.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America has published updated guidelines in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases on treating candidiasis, a serious, life-threatening fungal infection.
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Helen Haskell. Founder of Mothers Against Medical Error. Ms. Haskell founded Mothers Against Medical Error after her son, Lewis, died after a medical error in 2000. Since then, she was closely involved in crafting South Carolina…
Anthony Harris, MD. President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Dr. Harris is an infectious disease physician, hospital epidemiologist and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of…
Jacqueline Daley. Corporate Director of Infection Prevention and Control at LifeBridge Health-Sinai Hospital (Baltimore). Ms. Daley became director of infection prevention and control at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore in 2014. She has co-authored several publications on reducing…