Hospital-acquired infections harm 1.7 million patients each year, and kill nearly 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wider screening criteria and enhanced anti-infection measures resulted in no coronavirus infections among healthcare workers, despite treating 42 patients with confirmed coronavirus infection.

On any given day, one in 31 hospital patients and one in 43 nursing home residents has an infection acquired while seeking medical care, according to the CDC.

An "infection control breach" at a Denver, Colorado hospital may have put certain patients at risk of contracting HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, the state's department of public health and ...

Crain's reported the infection control and instrument cleaning allegations in an Oct. 7 article on problems with DMC's cardiology program. The letter to DMC Harper Hospital from CMS said the ...

Inspectors said hospital officials failed to provide evidence that they acted on an internal report that showed doctors had violated infection control practices in the operating room June 6, 2007.

Infection rates fell but could still be better "Hospital-acquired" infections are those considered avoidable if staff wash their hands appropriately and follow other infection-control procedures.

Learn how infection prevention manager Luz Caicedo successfully doubled her department's workforce and decreased HAIs at AdventHealth Celebration hospital.

In June 2018, Brigham’s infection control department was alerted to three cardiac surgery patients who developed an invasive infection from the bacteria.

Infection control experts refused to sign off a new children's hospital as safe because they had not been able to assess its ventilation risks, a public inquiry has heard.

New studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.

Hospitals in the central San Joaquin Valley are among the best and the worst at reducing health care associated infections, according to California public health officials.