Education and training programs around proper hand hygiene are often part of hospitals' approaches to improve healthcare workers' hand hygiene compliance. A recent study found these programs need to be repeated to have a lasting effect on compliance rates.

An American physician serving as a missionary in Liberia has contracted the Ebola virus, according to SIM USA, a charity that sponsored the missionary.

In response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has signed a contract with San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical for an accelerated drug development and testing program.

 Ensuring patient satisfaction is an integral factor for establishing positive reputability for hospitals. According to recent Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey data published by CMS, the following 10 out of 48 Chicagoland hospitals have the cleanest…

How to engage physicians without spending more

The possibility that Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation's largest for-profit hospital networks, will abruptly end its service contracts with the medical groups providing anesthesiology, emergency department and hospitalist care at its hospitals in California has caused physicians to…

The American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine published a perspective on caring for patients with the Ebola virus disease.

While incidence of pneumococcal disease decreased or increased slightly between 2002 and 2011, the baseline health status of those with serious pneumococcal infections worsened over the study period, according to a study published in Infectious Diseases and Therapy.

The following is a list of the 50 hospitals where 87 percent or more of patients reported that they "always" received help as soon as they wanted.

Even though sepsis is the most costly hospital condition in the United States, a recent survey shows just 44 percent of Americans have heard of it.