Hospitals should be safe havens for healing. Yet every year, one in 25 patients contracts at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI) while in the hospital. Of these 1.7 million HAI cases, ...

The following is a list of hospitals for which 89 percent or more of patients reported on their HCAHPS surveys that their room and bathroom were “always” clean. Data were pulled from Hospital Compare ...

The checklist has the user identify whether high-touch room surfaces, those sites most frequently contaminated and touched by patients and/or healthcare workers, have been cleaned, not cleaned or are ...

MIDDLETOWN — Not many places can boast a multilingual cleaning staff, but Lorrie Tuttle was tired of seeing hospital patients frustrated by a communication gap. “I went to do a daily patient room ...

Even though most COVID-19 cases come from exposure to airborne coronavirus, a new study points to the importance of surfaces as a reservoir of risk in nursing homes -- especially certain objects close ...