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Here are six resources offered by government and non-profit organizations to help healthcare facilities prevent and control the incidence of surgical site infections. Each resource is offered and downloadable at no cost.*

GOJO, a global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions and the inventors of PURELL, offers free, downloadable posters designed to encourage hand hygiene compliance.

Sixteen Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are urging HHS to change a CMS regulation that prohibits multiple use of vials labeled for single use.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System reveals outpatient surgery patients are also at risk of blood clots.

The FTC is raising concerns that a Missouri bill prohibiting registered nurses from administering pain management treatments is detrimental to patients in underserved areas, according to a News-Leader report.

The first surgery center in Kyle, Texas, is set to open this fall, according to a Hays Free Press report.

State healthcare groups say new reforms to the Doctors Across New York program will help address a critical shortage of physicians, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

Fewer patients are visiting their physicians, and that those who do are cutting what they spend on prescriptions, according to an American Medical News report.

Joshua Siegel, MD, is the sports medicine director at Access Sports Medicine & Orthopedics in Exeter, N.H. He has treated professional, national, and division I collegiate athletes.  

Jim Freund is the senior vice president of business development of GENASCIS, a Los Angeles-based company that provides billing, coding and transcription services to ambulatory surgery centers. That company’s billing and revenue cycle management services has helped more than 800…