The four-part course is specifically made for frontline health professionals working in assisted living communities throughout the United States. There are more than 30,500 assisted living ...

The findings were published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology and involved an observational cohort of all healthcare workers at the VA Boston Healthcare System who tested positive for ...

The CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, ... Thousands of health care workers died during the Covid-19 pandemic and others have been disabled by long Covid.

Home health agencies’ infection control policies weakened following pandemic, study finds; Without support, seniors aging in place may elect facility-based care, study finds ...

HICPAC, which advises the CDC and HHS on infection control practices, has faced an outcry from some healthcare workers and occupational health experts since the beginning of its guideline revision ...

Infection Control Society of Taiwan chairwoman Chen Yi-chun (陳宜君), who is also the director of National Taiwan University Hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases, yesterday said the association ...

A CDC advisory committee has been updating its 2007 standards for infection control in hospitals this year. Many health care professionals and scientists expressed outrage after the group released ...

The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow.

Editor’s Note (10/24/24): A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson said in a press briefing today that a total of five additional health care workers in Missouri who developed ...