A prevention bundle reduced inflammation, infections and hospitalizations among nursing home residents with peripherally ...

Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague U.S. nursing homes, a new government ... showed that infection-control procedures were still sorely lacking ...

Few of the many nonpharmacologic efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes during the pandemic were ...

"We urgently need better longitudinal evidence on vaccine effectiveness" to inform best practices for nursing home infection control measures, outbreak prevention and potential indication for a ...

Nursing home leaders are hoping that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) new chief, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ...

For people living in care homes, infections can be serious ... NICE quality standard: Infection prevention and control (QS61). The guideline and quality standard have been developed to complement the ...

Vaccination in nursing homes led to a decrease in hospitalizations ... according to a report published Tuesday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Hospitalizations fell from 31 per ...

Wards and care homes reported reduction in falls requiring an ambulance ... the unit experienced stabilisation and then reduction in infections. The team reviewed its infection prevention and control ...

NY suddenly started withholding names of medical facilities with cases of deadly drug-resistant fungus Candida auris. We got ...