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April 1st kicks off National Public Health Week. Each day is dedicated to a specific public health need. For today’s topic, “Healthy Communities,” we discuss how the health of our communities is directly impacted by the way we interact with the surfaces in our environment and healthcare settings.
Read MoreThe state of Maryland's cutting-edge program, called The Clean Collaborative, was created to tackle a key component of infection transfers – surface contamination. The first of its scale in the United States, the results of The Clean Collaborative have been impressive.
Read MoreAs the 2018 Healthcare Surfaces Summit closed out its third and most successful year, the organization realized that they had outgrown their original name. Multiple successes in 2018, with bigger goals for 2019, necessitated a name that surpassed an annual event…
Read MoreWelcome to part two of my patient story. In the previous article, I took you on the journey of how I acquired an HAI. This story will go into a bit more detail and focus on how a surface caused my infection.
Read MoreWhat most people do not understand about the environment is that there is an entire world of unseen microbes hiding on all surfaces. Bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbial life can exist, at least for some time, on almost any surface known to humankind. Likewise, many of us do not realize that “clean does not necessarily mean microbial clean.”
Read MoreUp until the Fall of 2014, I was a very healthy 55-year-old with an exceptional life. Because I had never been hospitalized before, I wasn’t even aware of the dangers of healthcare-acquired infections…yet. This is my story and you should know it can happen to anyone, even those that are healthy.
Read MoreThe Healthcare Surfaces Summit has had a big year already. At the August 20-21, 2018 Healthcare Surfaces Summit (HSS) in Bloomington, Minnesota, they added two new board members and elected Dr. Matthew Hardwick as the President-Elect.
Read MoreA new article published in Infection Control Today on the 2018 Healthcare Surfaces Summit: Unprecedented Collaboration to Eliminate Infection and Illness Caused by Contaminated Surfaces in Healthcare Environments
Read MoreWe’re looking forward to active collaborations with our attendees! It will undoubtedly be two days of meaning, action, importance, and fun. As a non-profit organization, we are grateful for support from our attendees and sponsors. They allow us to have funds available to conduct research, standards setting, education, and more.
Read MoreThere is no shortage of regulations, requirements, consensus standards, and protocols for processes and procedures in healthcare. Relative to healthcare surfaces and their impact on infections and illness however, there is a great deal of fragmentation both within and across oversight and standards setting groups.
Read MoreHealthcare Surfaces Summit announces the keynote speaker for their 3rd annual Summit: Dr. Stephen Tomasino, Senior Scientist at the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Microbiology Laboratory located at the Environmental Science Center, Fort Meade, Maryland.
Read MoreNow is the time for change toward infection prevention and control and preventing healthcare-associated infections. The only way to find sustainable solutions is to bring together professional disciplines hailing from a variety of settings.
Read MoreLearn more about the new leadership, members, and staff of the Healthcare Surfaces Summit.
Read MoreSo many exciting things are happening with the Healthcare Surfaces Summit! As we evolve and take on more projects, felt it was time to refresh our brand and launch a new website. A streamlined new look puts a fresh focus on the important, multi-disciplinary work being done to achieve our mission: “To reduce preventable infections through collaboration of industry, academia, science, regulatory, and service sectors by interrupting the transmission of surface-related pathogens in healthcare in support of community health.”
Read MoreThe fact that environmental surfaces play a crucial role in the spread of microbes that cause deadly infection is realized. The question is, now what? How do you evaluate the surfaces issues holistically and scientifically to find solutions, and address the many aspects of the problem?
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