Hospital

Brigham and Women’s Hospital was named the top hospital in the U.S. for OB/GYN care, according to the 2023-2024 Best Hospitals rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

Better definition of hospital onset bacteremia and fungemia patients could improve care, including reducing mortality rates, higher readmission risk and cost, and longer length of stay, a study found.

ORLANDO — A hospital reduced the rate of hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile infection with a standardized system for early recognition and testing, researchers found.

ORLANDO — Staff at a hospital that saw more than 100 cases of mpox in its emergency department collaborated to design an infection control protocol to simplify the response, safely care for patients and prevent further transmission.

ORLANDO — An automated hand hygiene monitoring system improved hand hygiene compliance at a New Jersey hospital, according to results presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual conference.

ORLANDO — An initiative that focused on surgical patients’ paths from pre-op meetings to hospital discharge reduced neurosurgical infections by more than 80% over 2 years at a Pittsburgh hospital, researchers reported.

ORLANDO — Staff at a children’s hospital in Virginia collaborated to go almost a year without a central line-associated bloodstream infection, researchers reported.

ORLANDO — A children’s hospital used decolonization protocols to drive down rates of MRSA in three intensive care units by more than 40%, according to data reported at a medical conference.

The annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will highlight strategies to improve hospital infection prevention practices and efforts to increase infection prevention and control staffing.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was ranked No. 1 on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of best children’s hospitals for the first time.