Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague U.S. nursing homes, a new government ... showed that infection-control procedures were still sorely lacking ...

Few of the many nonpharmacologic efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes during the pandemic were ...

"We urgently need better longitudinal evidence on vaccine effectiveness" to inform best practices for nursing home infection control measures, outbreak prevention and potential indication for a ...

For people living in care homes, infections can be serious ... NICE quality standard: Infection prevention and control (QS61). The guideline and quality standard have been developed to complement the ...

Wards and care homes reported reduction in falls requiring an ambulance ... the unit experienced stabilisation and then reduction in infections. The team reviewed its infection prevention and control ...

Staffing constraints are the single greatest challenge to maintaining clinical excellence in 2025, followed by insufficient ...

Vaccination in nursing homes led to a decrease in hospitalizations ... according to a report published Tuesday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Hospitalizations fell from 31 per ...

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. Background to learning The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for strong relationships between health and social care. During the pandemic ...

NY suddenly started withholding names of medical facilities with cases of deadly drug-resistant fungus Candida auris. We got ...