The NHSN national reporting system for nursing homes to submit COVID-19 vaccination data has set webinar dates to review important changes to the system. The next viewing opportunity is at 1 p.m. ET ...

NHSN subject matter experts provide updates on NHSN Analysis for 2020. Topics include changes to NHSN Dataset Generation (DSG), Adjusted Ranking Metric (ARM) & the Reliability-Adjusted Rankings ...

NHSN Patient Safety Component subject matter experts provide updates for 2020 on the guidelines for non-culture based testing to meet LCBI criteria, MBI-LCBI, surgical site infections, and the 2019 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is updating the COVID-19 vaccination form for long-term care providers. Providers submitting their shots data on the National Health Care Safety Network ...

Healthcare organizations should consider auditing healthcare-acquired infection data prior to reporting to the National Healthcare Safety Network, according to a study published in Infection Control ...

The CDC has received waves of questions, issued guidance and posted FAQs Nursing homes must report deaths weekly because they receive federal funding Hospital deaths, time since infection and unknown ...

(TNS) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to take back its role as the main agency collecting hospital data on infectious disease threats, after being stripped of the job ...

Due to a Trump administration order earlier this month, thousands of hospitals will now bypass the CDC and instead funnel their COVID-19-related data to a Pittsburgh-based private technology firm that ...

CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was designed to pay hospitals a higher annual update to their payment rates for successfully reporting and meeting designated quality measures. In ...

After two years of reporting to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, hospitals will soon upload their pandemic data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare ...

Data released in the CDC’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicate that patients with end-stage kidney disease on hemodialysis who are Black, Hispanic/Latino, or of lower socioeconomic ...

Emergency preparedness and response technology company Juvare has introduced the new software solution, BedSync, designed to automate hospital facility bed capacity reporting. The solution streamlines ...