Environmental Services

As the third year of COVID-19 begins, some questions have been answered, but others still remain. ICT asked leaders in the infection prevention and control field what answers the medical world needs now.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending February 10, 2023.

What should individuals getting a tattoo look for to protect themselves from infection?

Can a patient catch C difficile if the previous hospital room occupant had it?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending February 3, 2023.

Rodents are known to transmit more than 35 illnesses. What signs should environmental services personnel and infection preventionists look for?

How can food service and health care workers prevent the spread of norovirus? Keeping employees at home, using the correct products the right way, and more.

Are norovirus cases going to skyrocket, or will the pandemic slowdown of this infectious disease continue?

Infection Control Today's® Product Locator is a monthly column highlighting some of the latest advanced technology in the infection prevention field.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 20, 2023.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 13, 2023.

What do clinicians, infection preventionists, and environmental hygiene personnel do when faced with rare infectious diseases? Matt Pullen, MD, gives ICT® readers a tutorial.

Have the CDC and EPA given enough correct guidance on how to use cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic, or is it “fundamentally flawed”?

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending January 6, 2023.

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, infection preventionists, nurses, environmental services personnel, and other health care workers cannot forget about C auris.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 24, 2022.

The best disinfectant needs to be fast-acting and remain wet for the entire contact time in a single application. What else is required?

Infection Control Today® talks to Shannon Simmons, DHSc, MPH, CIC, about her work with the APIC's Cleaning, Disinfection, Sterilization Conference and her position as an ambulatory infection preventionist.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 9, 2022.

Infection Control Today's® Product Locator is a monthly column highlighting some of the latest advanced technology in the infection prevention field.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending December 2, 2022

Any decrease in the devastation of Clostridioides difficile is welcomed, but an investigative team brought the numbers down by 50%. See what control measures they used.

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending November 25, 2022.

Artificial intelligence increases infection prevention and control measures in health care facilities and beyond.

Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens of clinical importance in health care facilities today.