Hospitals across Oregon are falling below national standards in preventing infections, according to the Oregon Health ...

Oregon hospitals recorded nearly 1,000 infections that patients picked up while receiving care in 2024, resulting in ...

Oregon hospitals have been making progress in reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs), but they still fall short in ...

What is a Master of Science in Infection Prevention & Control? The Master of Science (MS) in Infection Prevention & Control degree trains students to work as professionals in the field of infection ...

More than two decades ago, measles—a highly contagious and potentially deadly childhood disease—was declared eliminated in ...

In response to recent findings showing clinical cases of C. auris grew 95 percent from 2020 to 2021, The Washington Post spoke to experts who said the research points to how poorly funded and ...

Some healthcare organizations, including long-term care communities, are taking infection control to a whole new level. An article published Dec. 7 in Infection Control Today highlights the concept of ...

The Infection Control and Prevention micro-credential covers the essential principles of infection prevention and control and their application in long-term care settings. Students earn a digital ...

PointClickCare on Tuesday announced a new infection prevention and control solution designed to provide ongoing, centralized resident surveillance at the facility and enterprise level. Clinical teams, ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 11: Health Minister Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi emphasized that investing in infection control programs is the most prudent and effective approach to reducing healthcare-associated infections ...

Infections blamed on a fungus labeled as a "superbug" by U.S. health officials have grown by 33% in Nevada over the past year, according to a state report.