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Jonathan Perlin, M.D., 2015 chairman of the AHA Board of Trustees, Benjamin Chu, M.D., a previous AHA chairman, and Linda Burnes Bolton, R.N., 2015 president of the AHA’s American Organization of Nurse Executives subsidiary, are among 70 newly elected members of the National Academy of…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new infection prevention tools for outpatient hemodialysis centers. The tools address hemodialysis injection safety and station disinfection. For more on dialysis and injection safety, visit www.cdc.gov/dialysis and www.cdc.…
The AHA and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will host a Twitter chat Wednesday on the important roles patients, families and health care professionals play in preventing infections. Topics will include hand hygiene, flu vaccination and antibiotic resistance. Join…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will accept comments through Nov. 17 to inform implementation of changes to Medicare payment for physicians and eligible professionals under Section 101 of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, the agency announced yesterday…
Health care providers who use heater-cooler devices during cardiothoracic surgery or other procedures should consider taking additional precautions to reduce the risk of infection, the Food and Drug Administration advised yesterday, citing 32 reports of device contamination or patient…
A 30% reduction in the efficacy of antibiotics could increase infections and associated deaths for certain surgery and chemotherapy patients by 120,000 and 6,300 per year, respectively, according to a new study published online by The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The estimates are based on past…
The Health Resources and Services Administration this week awarded more than $240 million to support scholarship and loan repayment programs for primary care clinicians and students who serve in underserved communities.
Prescribing practices for opioid pain relievers and other controlled substances varied widely among eight states reporting 2013 data to the Prescription Behavior Surveillance System, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all eight states, opioid…
The AHA has extended to Oct. 23 the deadline for all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey. The free web-based survey helps AHA measure the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac…
Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago held a ceremony earlier this month to tie purple ribbons around a tree in its lobby as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The awareness-raising activity is part of a program that hospital launched earlier this year to better equip providers to identify…