The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers three new complimentary resources to prevent bloodstream and other infections in outpatient hemodialysis patients, according to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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Nearly all surveyed children's hospitals in the U.S. and Canada have implemented interventions to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in addition to those implemented through a bundle, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
A combination of leadership, incentives, accountability interventions and other strategies helped Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center maintain a hand hygiene compliance rate of more than 85 percent since January 2011, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital…
Novant Health Pinnacle Orthopedics in Statesville, N.C., announced that it will add Cullan Reilly, MD, to its medical staff in August, according to a Salisbury Post report.
Middletown, Conn.-based Community Health Center announced that primary care providers from Wilmington, Del.-based Westside Family Healthcare, a network of community health centers, are now participating in CHC's weekly Project ECHO pain management program.
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Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Ala., announced the addition of Thomas R. Whisenhunt Jr., MD, to its medical staff, according to an Alabama report.
Rockford (Ill.) Spine Center announced a successful new procedure to correct severe deformities of the spine — Transforaminal Anterior Release.
Five healthcare leaders discussed U.S. efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infections at a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing Tuesday.
Spinal Elements will have raised nearly $250,000 for children's charities in the first year of Hero Allograft sales.
Stryker announced today it will acquire MAKO Surgical for approximately $1.65 billion at $30 per share.