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Sterile processing departments face high-stakes challenges daily. At AORN 2025, Marjorie Wall outlined transformative strategies to improve safety, efficiency, and cross-departmental collaboration, and also discussed HSPA 2025. 


A Chat With Marjorie Wall, EDBA: Human Factors, Innovation, and Collaboration for Safer Patient Outcomes in the SPD

AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo

Dr Rebecca Crapanzano-Sigafoos explains how at this year’s APIC Annual Conference & Expo in Phoenix, leaders unveiled key initiatives poised to shape the future of infection prevention, including a new research network, an updated MegaSurvey, and a comprehensive guide to catheter-associated bloodstream infection prevention. 

Research, Resources, and Reconnection: What’s New at APIC 2025

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)

Explore APIC Chapter Conferences for the remainder of 2024 and 2025. As your APIC Chapter announces its conference, send it to ICT to be posted here!

Upcoming APIC Chapter Conferences 

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) - Chapters

Environmental hygiene is about more than just shiny surfaces. At Exchange25, infection prevention experts urged the field to look deeper, rethink blame, and validate cleaning efforts across the entire care environment, not just EVS tasks.

Beyond the Surface: Rethinking Environmental Hygiene Validation at Exchange25

Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE) Exchange

“Celebrate Clean Hospitals Day with us. We're an association that is trying to get out there and make people's lives a bit safer and better. Join us!” Alexandra Peters, PhD


Clean Hospitals Day Marks the Launch of the HEHSAF Tool

Clean Hospitals Day International Conference

In this interview, completed shortly before the HSPA 2025 conference, as she prepared to take the helm as HSPA’s next president, Arlene Bush,  CRCST, CER, CIS, SME, DSMD, CRMST, discusses humility, determination, and a bold vision to elevate sterile processing professionals and broaden the association’s impact.

Rising to Lead: Arlene Bush Steps Into HSPA Presidency With Vision and Heart

Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA) Annual Conference & Expo

IDWeek 2024 continues to give encouraging studies. Check out several more from CSL Seqirus and Shionogi.

Even More Studies From IDWeek 2024 to Improve Lives: CSL Seqirus and Shionogi

ID Week

Explore eco-friendly cleaning with a focus on EPA certifications and eco-friendly cleaners' efficacy. Uncover real-world research insights and a review of an ISSA thought leader session.

Do Eco-Conscious Cleaning Products Clean as Well as Their Traditional Counterparts?

ISSA—The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association

Entamoeba gingivalis and Trichomonas tenax are protozoan parasites linked to periodontal disease. Emerging research highlights their role in oral inflammation, tissue destruction, and worsening gum disease.


Oral Parasites and Periodontal Disease: The Hidden Threat to Dental Health

Midwinter Meeting - the Chicago Dental Society

A rare Tennessee outbreak of Mycobacterium fortuitum revealed deep gaps in infection prevention at outpatient surgery centers—where oversight, staffing, and reporting often fall short.

Non-tuberculous Mycobacterium Outbreak at Surgery Center Highlights Infection Control Lapses

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Spring Conference