COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning
Dry hydrogen peroxide may reduce COVID-19 infection transmissions in long-term care facilities without requiring additional staff intervention, a study concludes.
A Health and Human Services Department report describes how the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 15% increase in drug-resistant hospital-acquired infections and antimicrobial resistant-related deaths. Factors included severely sick patients who needed mechanical ventilation; long hospital stays and…
Hospitals with greater COVID-19 patient loads confronted higher adverse events for all patients, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality study found.
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded more than $1.4 billion this week to support the development of the next generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19.
The United States health care system was too divided, outdated and disorganized to respond efficiently to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released this week.
The American Hospital Association and its partners published a guide to help emergency response agencies, including hospitals, fire, police and public health agencies develop and deploy a highly integrated and seamlessly coordinated response and recovery system.
Mary Ann Fuchs, DNP, RN, discusses her leadership actions during the pandemic in the December issue of Nurse Leader.
The National Academy of Medicine on Nov. 30 from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. ET will host a webinar to discuss findings from the recent NAM publication, Emerging Stronger from COVID-19: Priorities for Health System Transformation, and related next steps.
A recent federal report details the extreme stress the COVID-19 pandemic put on the health care workforce.