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Long-Term Care
The Infection Control Today® chronic and long-term care facilities page provides news, updates, and guidance on tackling infection prevention in these unique environments, including nursing homes, skilled nursing centers, and assisted-living facilities. This page includes news on cleaning, disinfection, antibiotic stewardship, hand hygiene, isolation precautions, outbreak protocol, and more as administrators and infection prevention teams seek to curb outbreaks of pneumonia, influenza, Clostridioides difficile, urinary tract infections, and skin and soft tissue infections, among others.
Considerations for Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producers in Nursing Homes
January 18, 2023
Information for infection preventionists to manage ESBL-producers even while fighting against COVID-19.
LTC Facilities Face Unique Infection Control Issues During COVID-19 Pandemic
November 29, 2022
Integrating home and community, long-term care facilities are supposed to be a haven for patients and their families. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping the patients and the staff safe was a constant battle. An infection preventionist who lived through it discusses the challenges at her facility.
Weekly Rounds: Therapy Animal Infection Risks, Bug of the Month, and More
November 28, 2022
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending November 25, 2022.
Attempting to Standardize Environmental Hygiene Throughout the World
October 17, 2022
Environmental hygiene issues are rampant throughout every country in the world. From not enough resources to too few personnel, hospitals face difficulties that put patients at risk.
How to Obtain Better Hand Hygiene Adherence: Ideas From Health Care Workers on the Floor
September 29, 2022
Many studies have been done on how to increase hand hygiene adherence. However, ICT® decided to go to the source and ask the health care workers themselves why they do not always follow hand hygiene.
Weekly Rounds: Bug of the Month, UV-C Technology, and More
September 23, 2022
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending September 23.
Weekly Rounds: A Sepsis Review, LTC Staff Staying or Going? and More
September 10, 2022
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending September 9.
Fractured Trust: Learning Lessons From COVID-19 to Prevent Monkeypox
September 09, 2022
How much information should the public have about infectious diseases? Can the public handle the truth? If the correct information is not given out, will the public believe the medical leaders when another serious disease threatens the public’s health? Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, continues her discussion with ICT.
Sepsis: A Review for Infection Prevention Professionals
September 08, 2022
CDC’s Medical Advisor for the Healthcare Safety Network, Raymund Dantes, MD, MPH, reviews sepsis and what infection preventionists, epidemiologists, and other health care workers need to know.
Boots on the Ground, or These Boots Are Made for Walking? Some LTC Staff Choose the Latter
September 07, 2022
Long-term care facilities were once normally happier places, but COVID-19 changed the individuals working and living there. PPEs, testing, overwork, underpayment, and too many isolations have chased health care workers away and forced the facilities' population to plummet. Can anything be done?