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Joint Commission Resources (JCR) -- a division of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations -- has collaborated with a leading national infection control group to publish a workbook.
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Ramp up your flu vaccine campaign. This year, the heat is on for hospitals to improve their health care worker vaccination rates.
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Hospitals began offering pertussis vaccines to their employees in an effort to protect vulnerable patients from a disease that is most contagious in its early stages, when it may go undetected.
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Problems with a major flu manufacturer have raised the possibility of another vaccine shortage or delay this fall.
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If you're still trying to convince your hospital administration to invest in a safe patient handling program, here's a compelling reason: Lift equipment may help prevent patient falls.
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Concerns about formaldehyde exposure in a laboratory of New York Hospital Queens led to $112,500 in fines and two citations for alleged "willful" violations from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
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Airborne concentrations of formaldehyde above 0.1 ppm can cause irritation of the respiratory tract. The severity of irritation worsens as concentrations increase.
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A growing demand for N95 filtering facepiece respirators has created a booming market -- and concerns about the marketing claims of new products.
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The nation's emergency care system is in crisis, and the solution must include protections for the health care workers who struggle to make it work, according to an Institute of Medicine report ...
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Having made infection control and patient safety top priorities in recent years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is now taking on the thorny issue of flu vaccinations for health care workers in a new standard that becomes effective next year.
