The flu, readmission reduction and reducing hospital-acquired infections captured the attention of infection control and clinical quality leaders during the week of Jan. 12.

Usually, patient harm prevention programs are focused on the adult patient, like preventing patient falls or wrong-site surgeries. But lately, many hospitals have been focused on preventing a different type of patient harm: newborn accidental injuries.

Getting a flu vaccine this season reduces a person's chance of going to see a physician for the flu by 23 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An urgent care clinic on the campus of La Mesa, Calif.-based Grossmont Hospital was shut down for a few hours Wednesday after five people displaying measles symptoms arrived at the clinic, according to a report by La Mesa-Mount Helix Patch.

Nationwide, hospitals have made substantial progress in reducing some healthcare-associated infections the past few years, and 26 states performed better than the nation on at least two infection types, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

Cold atmospheric pressure plasma effectively inactivates human norovirus, meaning it could potentially be used for disinfecting contaminated surfaces in clinical settings, according to a recent study published in an American Society of Microbiology journal.

Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., and Hackensack (N.J.) University Health Network have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a private, four-year school of medicine.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating multiple instances of Wallcur's simulated intravenous saline products being administered to patients after issuing an alert about the solution in early January.

Introducing a disposable wiping system pre-wetted with an accelerated hydrogen peroxide disinfectant in a hospital can significantly reduce the rate of healthcare-associated infections caused by Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, according to a study in the American…

In just 10 minutes, a pulsed xenon ultraviolet disinfection robot can kill Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus on hospital room surfaces, according to a study in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.