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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney recaps events from the final day of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's annual conference in San Antonio, Texas.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney talks with APIC CEO Katrina Crist about how the federal government's infection reporting requirements have affected the infection-prevention field, the challenge of reducing C. difficile infection rates and APIC's new IP competency model.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney talks with Elaine Larson, professor at Columbia University School of Nursing, about hygiene initiatives and the impact of the government's public-reporting requirements for infections.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney recaps the second day of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's annual conference. Educational sessions on a wide variety of topics, including surgical-site infection prevention and healthcare reform, dominated today's...
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney recaps the first day of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. Kickoff keynote speaker Dr. Allan Morrison, a professor and senior fellow at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.,...
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney previews the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's annual conference in San Antonio June 4-6.
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Modern Healthcare quality and safety reporter Maureen McKinney talks to attendees at the National Patient Safety Foundation's annual meeting about their organizations' most pressing concerns and what they've taken away from the event.
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In an exclusive interview, Carol Wagner, senior vice president for patient safety at the Washington State Hospital Association, talks with Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney. Wagner discusses her association's top priorities under the HEN program as well as goals under the Partnership for...
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Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE, sat down with Jessica Zigmond, Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief, to discuss the role physicians are playing in accountable care organizations, the future legal status of the healthcare reform law and possible reform of Medicare's...
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Joanie Perkins, director of network development for North Sunflower Medical Center in Ruleville, Miss., was an attendee at the National Rural Health Association annual meeting in Denver. She spoke with Modern Healthcare's Paul Barr on April 19 at the conference about efforts and programs at North...
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