CMS Administrator Seema Verma at a July press conference. An infection control training program aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes is now available for frontline facility ...

During the pandemic, one very clear tragedy stood out: Approximately 200,000 residents and staff died from COVID-19 in nursing homes. However, what many people don’t realize is that even before the ...

Mary Duncan, R.N., MSN, CIC, is the senior director of Infection Prevention for the UAB Health System, with 18 years of experience implementing best practices at various health facilities. Her ...

Her plan four years ago seemed pretty straightforward: Help nursing homes communicate their infection rates to the CDC in an effort to curb what she saw was a big problem. At the time, there was no ...

Long before the novel coronavirus made its surprise appearance, the nation's nursing homes were struggling to obey basic infection prevention protocols designed to halt the spread of viruses and ...

Total, or hospital-wide, surveillance-collection of comprehensive data on all infections in the facility, with the aim of correcting problems as they arise. This is labor intensive. Surveillance by ...