The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) are urging Congress to sustain and increase funding to “detect dangerous infectious diseases and protect the American public from healthcare-associated infections…
Find out October 15 during a webinar honoring one exemplary hospital – as yet unannounced – that has “achieved sustainable improvements” in infection prevention. The winner is being recognized for helping to achieve the goals outlined through the Department of Health…
Two of the nation’s leading infection prevention groups expressed support for the increasing alignment of reimbursement with clinical quality improvement, though warning that the electronic reporting required in this process is going to be something of a work in progress….
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) have partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the first annual Partnership in Prevention Award. Nominations will…
Infectious disease societies frustrated at watching antimicrobial resistance increase for decades are taking the unusual step of asking for federal regulation and oversight of clinical practice, imploring the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to require hospitals to implement…
With the misuse and overuse of antibiotics driving drug resistance in general and emerging Clostridium difficile in particular, infection preventionists and health care epidemiologists want to have a greater role in antimicrobial stewardship programs. It may seem surprising that this…
While we mourn the apparent loss of the traditional, independent SHEA meeting, it is good to see that the healthcare epidemiology docs have joined with a wide array of colleagues in what amounts to an infectious disease rock festival: IDWeek…
I’m not going to start off by solemnly noting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had a standing recommendation to immunize health care workers against seasonal influenza for more than a quarter century. Well, there it is,…
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) is joining a lawsuit against the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), arguing that new reporting requirements for surgical site infections (SSIs) could have a “devastating impact on patient care.” Effective June…
A patient advocacy group called the MRSA Survivors Network is urging the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “to finally declare MRSA an ongoing epidemic” during SHEA’s annual conference that begins…