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Training Health Care Cleaners for Infection Control Compliance

Training Health Care Cleaners for Infection Control Compliance

Don’t bring infection in from the outside Health care facilities consistently are filled with vendor employees performing necessary work. This includes elevator technicians, painters, flooring contractors, plumbers, electricians, cleaning crews, and more—and many of these contractors do not have functional knowledge of how their work can negatively affect an immune-compromised patient. Without proper training on […]

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Preventing Legionnaires’ Disease

Preventing Legionnaires’ Disease

  Five steps to mitigate the risk of infection Protecting personnel and facilities from unseen bacteria and fungi is a daunting task for building managers as well as professional cleaning teams. Industry researchers developed antimicrobials to destroy disease-causing microbes, the most common of which are antibiotics, which target bacteria. Recently, however, there has been antibiotic […]

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I Did Not See That Coming!

I Did Not See That Coming!

On March 21, 2016, providers added a new regulatory compliance assessment to their checklist of HIPAA accountability. The Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights announced the start of the Phase 2 HIPAA Audit Program to ensure that “policies and procedures adopted by covered entities and their business associates meet selected standards […]

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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 column began with statistics outlining the cost of HAIs both in lives and in dollars and […]

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

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 surcharge of $1,100 per patient before they even get to their room. Nearly […]

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

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 to achieve that goal. “The ASCENDANT can provide humidity levels of 30 percent or lower and it does so saving […]

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

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 disinfection poducb look more like robot character from a “star Wars” movie than a piece of lifesaving medical equipment, […]

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Three Steps to Minimize the Risk of HAIs in Your Facility

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.

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Risk Management: Keeping Diseases Out of Healthcare Facilities

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 contracts a potentially fatal infection during the course of their hospital care. This life-threatening epidemic demonstrates the need for improved […]

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

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 care-associated infections, which are widely seen as preventable and often caused by unsatisfactory hospital conditions […]

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