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 ...

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 ...

Project Weber/RENEW on July 10, 2025. The center provides harm reduction and recovery services and sits next to the Rhode Island Hospital campus in Providence. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boston City Councilors were divided on Wednesday over the hotly debated safe injection sites. One councilor introduced a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For the first time, the U.S. government will ...