Nursing homes across the country are still being hit with frequent Focused Infection Control surveys, nine months after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that surveyors should ...

A year and a half after a federal watchdog blasted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over extensive delays in nursing home inspections, year-end data for fiscal year 2023 shows there has ...

The following is written by Carla Daley, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health. At Regent, we believe in “walking the walk,” meaning that our facilities should be status ...

Thirteen states ignored CMS recommendations and did not perform targeted infection control surveys to prepare for COVID-19 patients last year, HHS’ Office of Inspector General said in a June 28 report ...

A survey released today by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the American Society for Microbiology showed the turnaround time for laboratory test results may ...

BOISE — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has completed 115 infection control surveys in Idaho’s 82 nursing homes, identifying 66 citations that needed correction. The other 49 surveys found ...

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation published an infection control survey tool focused on reprocessing of medical devices. The survey covers reprocessing of semi-critical ...

BOISE — Idaho has completed 100 infection-control surveys of nursing homes since March, and while 44 found no deficiencies, the other 56 did. “A lot were minor,” said Tamara Prisock, administrator of ...

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Introduction More than 75% of the global population resides in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where ...