Hospital Infection Control & Prevention
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Clock Starts Ticking When COVID-19 Enters Nursing Home
Considering the high risk of spread after COVID-19 enters a nursing home, facilities must act immediately to protect residents, families, and staff from serious illness and death.
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CMS Moves to Enforce Infection Control in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a new emphasis on infection control in nursing homes and has fast-tracked a regulation to enforce COVID-19 reporting.
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The ‘Heart-Wrenching’ Toll of COVID-19 on Nursing Homes
The combination of a highly infectious virus and a frail resident population in a closed environment — where infection control has been historically difficult to implement — has resulted in devastating outbreaks of COVID-19 in U.S. nursing homes.
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Scientists Warn Pandemic May Not Decline in Warmer Weather
Seasonal influenza and common human coronaviruses typically fall off in warmer seasons, as heat and humidity diminish transmission sharply. There has been some hope that this will happen with COVID-19, giving the United States a summer respite against a relentlessly accelerating pandemic.
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OSHA Tells Inspectors to Use Discretion in Enforcing Respirator Fit-Testing
Responding to respirator shortages during the outbreak of novel coronavirus, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a memorandum allowing enforcement discretion” by compliance officers citing the Respiratory Protection standard (29 CFR § 1910.134).
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C. difficile Infections Decrease in Hospitals, But Increase in Community
Clostridioides difficile infections are declining in U.S. hospitals, as measures over the last decade to reign in antibiotic use and improve infection control appear to be working.
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Petition Demanding PPE for Healthcare Workers Has 1.7 Million Signatures
An online petition demanding personal protective equipment for healthcare workers to treat suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients had about 1.7 million signatures as this story was filed.
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COVID-19 Response: From Panic to Complacency
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic virus rages in some areas of the United States, there has been marked complacency in others, where public health pleas to stay at home and practice social distancing have been ignored by some.
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The Forecast Calls for Pain
There is the proverbial glass half-full or half-empty — and then there is the cold shot of despair that comes with considering how much of the planet COVID-19 has yet to hit.
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Personal Protective Equipment Shortage Is ‘Simply Unacceptable’
Two different national surveys have found widespread shortages of personal protective equipment and other critical hospital supplies as the United States battles the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world.