Category: healthcare-associated infections

Project Firstline Reaches Frontline Healthcare Workforce with Infection Control Training

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-standing gaps in infection control knowledge and understanding among the frontline healthcare workforce. Since the onset of the pandemic, healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic-resistant infections have increased, reversing national progress made before 2020. Infectious disease threats like Ebola, COVID-19, and antibiotic resistance will continue to emerge. It’s more important than ever Read More >

October 27, 2021 by Blog AdministratorLeave a comment

Disease Outbreak, General, prevention

American Hospital Association, antibiotic resistance, Community College Collaborative, COVID-19, ebola, healthcare-associated infections, infection control, League for Innovation in the Community College, personal health, Project Firstline, public health, training

What You May Not Know about Hand Hygiene – And Really Should

May 5th is World Hand Hygiene Day We all know that cleaning our hands helps keep threatening germs away, but unclean hands continue to contribute to infections while patients receive care in healthcare settings. On any given day, about 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. Many germs that cause these Read More >

May 5, 2016 by Blog Administrator24 Comments

General, prevention

hand hygiene, healthcare providers, healthcare-associated infections, patients, public health, World Hand Hygiene Day