How 'Clean' Is the Hospital Environment? A recent multistate survey of 183 acute care hospitals in the United States revealed that approximately 1 of every 25 inpatients developed at least one ...

A review of 80 studies finds that evidence-based research into hospital cleaning practices and the comparative effectiveness of different cleaning methods is uncommon. About one in 25 US patients ...

A worrying indictment of the U.S. for-profit healthcare system comes in the form of infection data. These are nosocomial infections – contracted whilst a patient is staying within the healthcare ...

Wendy Simons, the chief of the state agency that investigates consumer complaints about hospitals, knows firsthand that they sometimes come up short on cleanliness. Not long ago, when her daughter was ...

Princy Joseph, DNP, MSN, RN, CIC, was on a mission: Lower the infection risk associated with a hospital’s nearly 100 dialysis ...

Political point-scoring over policies to control MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus) confuses cleanliness with the real failure in UK hospitals – poor hand hygiene and inadequate use of ...

CLAY CENTER, Kan. (WIBW) - Clay County Medical Center (CCMC) has earned a 5-star rating for hospital cleanliness. According to a press release from CCMC, this rating places the center among a select ...

Re “Preventable Hospital Infections Becoming a Deadly Epidemic,” July 21: Infection rates in hospitals have long been a serious concern for patients. If restaurants receive ratings from A to D for ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Ahmedabad, July 5 (IANS) Ahmedabad's Sola Civil Hospital has removed 79 kg of solid waste, begun the scrapping process for 159 unusable medical equipment items and undertaken extensive ...

When Joseph Osgood goes to work as the housekeeping supervisor at UPMC Wellsboro, his priority is making sure that patients ...