Healthcare Environment Articles & Analysis

Shreveport, La. - June 18, 2020 - As healthcare systems across the nation combat human coronavirus, a Louisiana hospital is earning recognition for how they are responding to the crisis - and how that has benefitted its staff and high-risk patients. HealthySole is proud to support the work of the Intensive Specialty Hospital. HealthySole Plus units can reduce pathogen transmissions in any ...

By Healthy Sole, L.L.C.

Improved patient outcomes and experience, shorter length of stay and cost effectiveness drive the recognition of value in today’s rapidly-evolving and competitive healthcare environment. Stago contracted with Alira Health to conduct an economic evaluation comparing the use of the STA-Liatest D-Di assay to other D-dimer assays in conjunction with a probability assessment model for exclusion ...

By Diagnostica Stago S.A.S.

CHICAGO – The American Hospital Association (AHA) has launched a revamped website that provides free, practical tools to help health care facilities reduce their environmental footprints. The Sustainability Roadmap—www.sustainabilityroadmap.org—shows hospitals how to implement real-world sustainability projects, enhance existing efforts, and share their environmental successes ...

By Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE)

Association for the Healthcare Environment Joins 3M and Founding Partners in OneTogether Movement to Fight HAIs Collaborative effort to improve patient safety gains momentum April 26, 2013 — ST. PAUL, Minn. — 3M™ and its founding partners are proud to announce that The Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE) of the American Hospital Association is joining OneTogether: ...

By Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE)

A growing body of research has shown that the design of the healthcare built environment contributes to a safe and healing environment for patients and a nurturing, positive environment for staff, as well as helping achieve organizational and business objectives. An evidence-based design process involves using the best available research to inform design decisions and then conducting research to ...

By Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)

Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of another online video to help educate the public about issues that may impact their health. The latest educational video discusses the threat to human health due to Burkholderia cepacia in healthcare environments. Burkholderia cepacia is the name of a group or “complex” of bacteria that can be ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

CleanMed 2017 is an environmental sustainability conference for the healthcare sector and Haas Group International brought their product Maxcom to the expo in Minneapolis, MN to gain recognition within the healthcare industry. The healthcare attendees at CleanMed were very impressed with Maxcom and the capabilities and solutions that it offers for chemical challenges that are faced within the ...

By Incora

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that on any given day, about 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Healthcare-associated infections are those infections that patients acquire during the course of receiving treatment for other conditions. A number of these infections are due to an expanding list of drug-resistant ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is the ability of microbes to resist the effects of drugs – that is, the germs are not killed and their growth is not stopped. These pathogens can be found in the environment in the air, water, soil and on surfaces, as well as in or on people and animals. All types of microbes have the ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health) warns that tuberculosis (TB) is still a life-threatening problem in the city. As recently as 2022, the agency reports there were 536 confirmed TB cases, including some involving multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, and that 100% of NYC neighborhoods had at least one TB case. TB is caused by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Core, one of the most recognized providers of commercial indoor air quality (IAQ) services, provides testing services to ensure the air in healthcare facilities doesn’t lead to nosocomial infections. There are a reportedly 1.7 million hospital acquired infections diagnosed each year in the United States. A study sponsored by Resources for the Future and reported in a 2006 issue of the ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

A former University of Washington star fundraiser will now lead philanthropy and communications for the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). Sissy Walsh Bouchard, EdD has been named vice president of development and will direct ISB's fundraising programs and initiatives and maximize visibility of ISB's mission and strategic goals. She will serve as a member of ...

By Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)

Power management company Eaton today announced a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) to highlight the critical power management solutions helping the healthcare industry safeguard patients and data. Eaton experts will develop in-depth technical, thought leadership content focused on advancing energy efficiency and power resiliency through lighting, critical ...

By Eaton Corporation

Clarke Energy will be exhibiting at the flagship event in the Institute Healthcare Engineering Estate Management’s (IHEEM) calendar at Manchester Central Convention Centre on the 20th – 21st October 2015. We are attending to give information on hospital combined heat and power. Clarke Energy has many established projects within the healthcare industry. The iconic projects that we ...

By Clarke Energy

Burkholderia cepacia is the name for a group or “complex” of bacteria that can be found in soil and water and survive for extended periods of time in moist environments. Also known as BCC or B. cepacia, the bacteria are often resistant to common antibiotics. Burkholderia cepacia poses little medical risk to most healthy people. However, people who have certain health problems ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Fungal pathogens can be found across the United States and the Mid-Atlantic region is no exception. These fungi cause disease in humans and one of the most recognized types of fungi that cause opportunistic infections in immunocomprimised individuals is known as Candida. Candidiasis is caused by fungal pathogens from the Candida genus. Most infections are caused by Candida albicans, a type ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

In November of last year, a new study was published in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC). It indicated the common presence of Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB), a dangerous multi-drug resistant bacterium, in numerous patient rooms in healthcare settings. Researchers found that MDR-AB was present in the indoor environment of 48% of the rooms of patients infected or colonized by the ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

EC2 helps medical facilities find solutions to the growing threat of infections and drug-resistant microbial contaminants with decades of infectious disease and hospital infrastructure knowledge. Last week Fox News reported that new drug resistant ‘superbugs’ have been found in 3 states, including Illinois. Later in the week USA Today published an article entitled ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

World TB Day is recognized in Puerto Rico and across the globe on March 24th. The date of this annual event was chosen to coincide with the date that Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis (TB), back in 1882. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes World TB Day as a time to educate the public about the impact of TB ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Countless people live productive and fulfilling lives with immune systems that are weakened due to inherited genetic defects, physical conditions, illnesses, past medical procedures or because of prescription drugs taken for various reasons. These individuals need to be especially aware of common microbial pathogens that are often found all around us. These pathogens may include various ...

By Clark Seif Clark Inc.