Nearly 200 stakeholders, who convened at Premier healthcare alliance and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition’s open meeting, developed 22 safe injection practices. Proceedings, background materials ...

Ambulatory surgery centers have made significant strides over the past several years in improving their infection prevention efforts, says Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, president of Infection Control ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition have released new educational tools on safe injection practices. The materials include a training presentation ...

The following article is written by Pamela Dembski Hart, CHSP, BS, MT (ASCP), principal of Healthcare Accreditation Resources. The nation is witnessing an alarming growth of patient-to-patient ...

FILE - Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, OnPoint NYC, in New York, Feb. 18, 2022. For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether ...

FILE - Supplies for drug users are seen at an overdose prevention center, OnPoint NYC, in New York, Feb. 18, 2022. The city of Providence, Rhode Island, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2204, has approved the ...

(*This story was updated at 9:43 a.m. on Friday, April 5, 2024 to correct a quotation from a spokesman for City Manager Eric Batista.) As deaths caused by opioid overdoses continue to rise yearly in ...

Overdose prevention advocates lobby legislators at the state Capitol to support a measure that would allow for the establishment of overdose prevention centers in Connecticut. Credit: Katy Golvala / ...

For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal ...