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Feds offer $40M in stimulus funds to fight healthcare-associated infections
The federal government has set aside $40 million in stimulus funds to help hospitals fight healthcare-associated infections, part of a larger government and industry push to eliminate these costly,... Read more...
HHS funds state efforts to reduce infections in ASCs
HHS has announced the start of funding for a national effort aimed at cutting down on infectious within stand-alone or same-day surgical centers (Sacs). The first program of this initiative, which is... Read more...
GAO: Hospitals have incentive to under-report infections
You know, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if nobody's watching too closely, hospitals have a major incentive to under-report the number of infections that take place within... Read more...
