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Why Rural Hospitals May Be Hit Hard by the Convergence of COVID-19 and Flu Season
UnityPoint Health prepares for a busy flu season and offers important resources for fighting back.
Videos on Ventilation
ASHE has developed videos for clinicians working in a health care setting covering topics such as negative pressure rooms, AIIRs, room turnovers and air changes per hour, and many more!
Top Three Q&As on This Year’s “Twindemic” from Loma Linda University Health
As COVID-19 and its emerging variants continue to spread and the cold and flu season begins, hospitals and health systems are preparing early this year.
Why the Flu Vaccine is More Important than Ever
The prospect of flu cases this season swamping the United States as well as COVID-19 is grim; co-infection with both respiratory viruses could be deadly.
Weighing the benefits of UV disinfection for HVAC systems
While Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is not a new tool for disinfection, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought it to the forefront of discussions again. UV radiation, with sufficient intensity and contact time, can inactivate viruses and bacteria through three main approaches: air, water and surface. One of the applications of UV lamp includes being used in HVAC systems.
Infection Control and Prevention
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) prevention and reduction are longstanding quality and patient safety priorities.
Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital - Making HAI Prevention ‘Everyone’s Job’
Trusted collaboration among all stakeholders, coupled with a clear consensus for keeping health care teams and patients safe, drive the infection prevention efforts at Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital: Multidisciplinary Team Leads Practice Change to Prevent Infections
In 2021, the Infection Prevention and Transplant Infectious Diseases teams at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago observed a significant increase in the number of pulmonary infections caused by Mycobaterium abscessus.
Advocate Condell Hospital: Improving Process to Improve Infection Prevention and Control
To reduce infection rates more effectively, successful hospitals and health systems are focusing on the fundamentals. For Advocate Condell Hospital, the focus is on process improvements.
MUSC Health: Standardizing Processes —Small Steps Are Key to Preventing SSIs
One Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is one too many for the team at MUSC Health in Charleston, South Carolina. MUSC’s mission is “Do no harm and change what’s possible”; MUSC knows that decreasing SSIs is “an absolute change that IS possible.”