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Study: Hospitals cutting back on infection-control education
Hospitals are understandably facing a lot of pressure to keep cutting down on facility-based infections. The problem is, they're also facing financial problems unlike any they've looked at in quite... Read more...
Dr. Doug Woolley: CMS needs to get tough on hospital acquired infections
Hospital acquired infections will continue to be a problem until CMS takes a tough stand that makes hospitals, physicians and surgeons financially responsible for all the costs that accrue from an... Read more...
SC group establishes quality trust
A group of healthcare organizations--including the South Carolina Hospital Association, Health Sciences South Carolina and Premier Healthcare Alliance--are coming together to study methods for... Read more...
PA study documents high cost of hospital infections
Everyone in the hospital industry knows that patients who contract an infection during their inpatient stay are much more costly to treat than those who don't. Now, there's another study out... Read more...
Study: Never events major factor in hospital liability costs
According to new research by insurance firm Aon Corp., hospital-acquired conditions accounted for 12.2 percent of total legal liability costs insured by healthcare facilities in 2007. While many... Read more...
HHS infection guidelines not enough, execs say
Recently, HHS announced a new infection control plan calling for more collaboration between... Read more...
Study: Physician leadership, improved practices needed to fight healthcare-associated infections
To cut down significantly on the rate of healthcare-associated infections, it will take not only improved infection prevention practices, but also more executive and physician leadership on the... Read more...
Blue Shield of California Foundation expands hospital-infection program
Having gone through a nine-hospital pilot effort, the Blue Shield of California Foundation is expanding a program to prevent hospital-acquired infection. The expanded program will include 55... Read more...
Study: Hospitalized kids suffer too many infections
A new study released this week concludes that hospitalized children suffer a high rate of infections and other preventable complications that lead to longer stays and cost millions of dollars. The... Read more...
CA hospital forced to stop cardiac surgeries due to infections
A Fresno hospital has been forced to stop performing open-heart surgeries while state public health authorities investigate a new surge in post-operative infections. Last year, the CDC investigated... Read more...
