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Obama signs landmark health bill into law MSNBC Share     President Barack Obama signed into law a landmark health care reform bill, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November congressional elections. The law will bring near-universal coverage to a wealthy country in which tens of millions of people are uninsured. The plan's provisions will be phased in over four years, and it is expected to expand coverage to about 94 percent of eligible non-elderly Americans would have coverage, compared with 83 percent today. More
Make the ASHES Annual Conference & Healthcare Marketplace your most important destination this year! Share
Watch this personal invitation to attend the conference from ASHES President Fiona Nemetz, CHESP, Patti Costello, and Planning Committee Member, Rick Sefner, CHESP. Watch video. Registration Now Open! Process your registration on or before April 23, 2010 and save. Visit the registration website now. New mops to fight hospital bugs BBC Share
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary cleaners have abandoned the traditional mop in favour of the new tool, which are cleaned with a natural disinfectant called Ozone. NHS Lothian said Ozone was 3,200 times more effective than chlorine bleach. John Jack, director of facilities at the health board, added that the new system used only cold water, making it more environmentally friendly. More
Are hand sanitizers better than handwashing against the common cold? Infection Control Today Share
A new study suggests that hand sanitizers containing ethanol are much more effective at removing rhinovirus from hands than washing with soap and water. Sanitizers containing both ethanol and organic acids significantly reduced recovery of the virus from hands and rhinovirus infection up to four hours following application. The researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Dial Corporation, detail their findings in the March 2010 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. More
Free infection control education—Only 7 days left! ASHES Share
ASHES announces the exclusive availability of free webcasts to members. The webcasts were produced by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and have been made available to the membership through an unrestricted educational grant from The Clorox Company. ASHES, The Clorox Company, and APIC are making this offer available through April 1, 2010. More Straight A Leadership - Alignment, Action and Accountability ASHHRA Share
Execution has always demanded great leadership and in 21st Century health care, it demands Straight A Leadership! This Webinar will focus on your role as a leader in the health care organization and acknowledge that your responsibilities today are tough – and will only get tougher. To survive in a rapidly shifting, do-more-with-less external environment, organizations need the ability to execute swiftly and well. This Webinar, based on Studer Group’s research with America’s top health care organizations, will help YOU – the health care human resource professional – as well as other leaders in health care pinpoint the gaps that exist in Alignment, Action and Accountability and help identify what is needed to become a more resourceful, agile, high-performing organization. More
Chest X-rays can help predict which H1N1 patients are at greatest risk Infection Control Today Share
A new study published in the April issue of Radiology suggests that chest X-rays may play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of H1N1 influenza by predicting which patients are likely to become sicker. "Working in the emergency room is very stressful and physicians need information fast," said lead author Galit Aviram, MD, head of cardiothoracic imaging in the Department of Radiology at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. "Our study provides significant findings that will help clinicians triage patients presenting with clinically suspected H1N1 influenza." More
FDA: Providers should suspend use of Rotarix vaccine AHA News Now Share
The Food and Drug Administration recommends that U.S. health care providers temporarily stop using Rotarix, a rotavirus vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, while the agency investigates components of an extraneous virus detected in the vaccine. More Pollution costs California hospitals millions of dollars Triple Pundit Share
Air pollution in Central and Southern California cost area hospitals $193 million from 2005 to 2007, according to a study by Rand Corp. The study documented 29,808 emergency room visits and hospital admissions in the South Coast Air Basin and the San Joaquin Valley for problems related to pollution. Both air basins are the worst in the U.S. Three-quarters of the health problems analyzed stemmed from high levels of fine particulate pollution (PM2.5). The other one-quarter of health problems analyzed stemmed from ozone, the main ingredient in smog. Ozone is created by noxious fumes from automobiles and factories. More
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