1. Hospital Sisters Health Employees Must Choose Mask or Flu Shot.

2. 12 CDC Recommendations to Prevent Clostridium Difficile Infections.

3. Patient Education Tool: 'Hand Hygiene Saves Lives' Patient Admission Video.

4. Advocacy Groups Ask Congress to Make Hospital Accreditation Surveys Public.

5. We Need Your Help: Take 5-10 minutes to complete a survey about Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control and you will be entered for a chance to win APIC's new ANYWHERE Online Education Center module: "Disinfection and Sterilization: Best Practices in Reprocessing Surgical Instruments." 10 winners will be chosen at random. To take the survey, click here.   

6. Tracking Cleaning Effectiveness: What You Need to Know About ATP Monitoring Systems.

7. 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference (Oct. 27-29, Chicago) to include keynote speaker Sam Donaldson discussing politics in Washington. He will also moderate a panel on the future of healthcare with Congressman Dr. Tom Price, ASCOA CEO Dr. Brent Lambert, Regent Surgical Health CEO Tom Mallon and PHA President Mike Russel. Less Than 30 Spots Left. To register or learn more,

8. Staff Safety Tool: Needlestick Injury Prevention Assessment Tool.  Note: Did you miss any of the 12 new tools added to our Database of Downloadable Patient Safety Tools & Resources last week? If so, click here to review these new resources now available for download and use in your facility.

9. Texas Board Disciplines 108 Physicians for Violations Including Substandard Care.

10. Pediatric ICU Patients Carrying MRSA at Heightened Risk of Full-Blown Infections.  

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