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Too many lessons in Tragedy

By Thom Wellington This first appeared in the August 2016 issue of DOTmed HealthCare Business News For the last four months, I have spotlighted different ideas in this column on how to reduce costly health care-acquired infections (HAIs). Each...

Infection Control Corner: Five steps to focus your team on preventing HAIs

Why refocus? Consider this: hospitals are starting out in the red as soon as a patient is registered due to health care-acquired infection (HAI) costs. Based on the cost data from extensive research by Lynn White, M.D., hospitals are looking at a...

Infection Prevention Buyer’s Guide: Maintaining air and water quality

Maintaining air and water quality OR humidity levels are also critical. Steve Ulm, director of marketing, SEMCO LLC, says keeping relative humidity levels below 60 percent decreases risk of HAI. SEMCO’s award-winning Ascendant allows facilities...

Infection Control Corner: Is Ultraviolet Equipment a Gimmick or an Innovation?

Many health care administrators and infection prevention wonder if UV-E light technology is an expensive gimmick or if it is a necessary device for improving outcomes and aiding in reducing health care-acquired infections (HAls). Many UV—C...

Three Steps to Minimize the Risk of HAIs in Your Facility

Despite CDC recommendations, there is no law requiring infection prevention training for any construction worker or other vendor working in a health care facility.

Risk Management: Keeping Diseases Out of Healthcare Facilities

When healthcare facilities’ staff and contractor employees are aware of infection problems and take specific steps to prevent them, healthcare-acquired infection rates can decrease by more than 70 percent. One in 25 hospital patients...

Hospital Acquired Infection Reduction Through Proper Training of Workers on Construction Sites WIthin Hospitals

To combat the alarming 5 percent of all hospital stays that result in readmission due to conditions acquired in health care facilities, all staff and contractors should be well educated on how to minimize the spread of fatal infections. Health...

Infection Control University: Infection-Control Training Goes Viral in Hospitals

Everyone inside healthcare is focused on controlling costs, especially since penalties are seriously impacting CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) reimbursements to hospitals. Hospitals are not faced with CMS participation payments...

Environmental services’ role in hospital construction

Eight steps for keeping spaces clean and free of patient dangers Environmental services (ES) technicians play a critical role in today’s hospitals. Their previous focus on keeping a health care facility clean is only a limited view of how...

Proper training can lower risks of hospital-acquired infections

Healthcare facilities have constant activity due to contractor employees performing necessary work. This includes elevator technicians, painters, flooring contractors, plumbers, electricians and more, all without functional knowledge of how their...

Handling Hazardous materials in a healthcare setting

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than half of infection outbreaks caused by the common mold, Aspergillus spp., are associated with construction and maintenance activities in hospitals. The CDC also estimates...

8 tips on how to reduce contractor-related HAIs

Healthcare facilities are continuously filled with contractor employees performing necessary work. This includes elevator technicians, painters, flooring contractors, plumbers, electricians and more – all without functional knowledge of how their...