Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens of clinical importance in healthcare facilities today.

May 2020 Bug of the Month

The discussion and research underscore the potential advantages of vascular access services teams (VASTs) for assessment, insertion, management, complications reduction, and staff education.

Establishing Vascular Access Teams for Patient Safety

Renovation or construction that happens in preexisting spaces or occupied areas have very different sets of challenges than the building of new facilities.

Breaking the Chain: How to Better Contain Infection Risk During Hospital Construction

The media, public health officials, and politicians are accused of being too quick to find fault with nursing home providers.

Long-Term Care Facilities Particularly Vulnerable to COVID-19 (and Criticism)

These pathogens are relentless, they are evolutionarily programed to win, and they are currently doing just that.

When COVID-19 Knocks on Nursing Homes’ Doors, Systemic Problems Welcome It

One hospital has asked workers to consider shaving their beards.

When It Comes to Fighting Covid-19, Some Problems Can’t Be Masked

										Ideally, link nurses increase awareness of infection control issues and motivate colleagues to improve in that regard, keeping patients and themselves safer by limiting the spread of HAIs.						 

Infection Control Today, May 2020 (Vol. 24 No. 4)