2025 Editions of Healthcare Hygiene magazine
Explore the Nov-Dec 2025 Edition
The International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC 2025) assembled thought leaders from across the globe as they addressed a wide range of imperatives in infection disease, infection prevention and public health.
Topics addressed in this cover story include airborne transmission, hand hygiene, environmental hygiene, and other infection prevention and control-related imperatives.
Healthcare Hygiene magazine reported from Geneva, Switzerland, thanks to generous underwriters and the Environmental Services Optimization Project (EvSOP).
Explore the Sept-Oct 2026 Edition
Experts tackle the tough issues in hand hygiene, including compliance, observation and monitoring, and reporting.
Explore the July-Aug 2026 Edition
+ New and Recent Guidance for IPs
In the session, “What’s New with Practice Guidance in Infection Prevention and Control,” presenters Bethany Phillips, MLS (ASCP)CM, MPH, CIC, HACP-IC, FACIP, director of infection prevention at Advocate Health and Jennifer A. Ormsby, DNP, RN, CPN, CIC, CPNP-PC, senior director of infection prevention and control at Boston Children’s Hospital, described the current work of the Practice Guidance Committee (PGC) and informed attendees about the latest changes in infection prevention and control impacting practice.
+ Joint Commission Streamlines Standards
In the APIC session, “The Joint Commission: Infection Control Update,” presenter Tiffany Wiksten, DNP, RN, CIC, senior associate director of the Standards Interpretation Group Operations and Quality Assurance, shared with attendees updates to the Joint Commission infection control standards as well as reviewed frequently scored and high-risk infection control observations and common challenges identified during the survey process.
Explore the May-June 2026 Edition
The best guidelines and evidence-based recommendations are only as good as the degree to which they are implemented. That’s the perennial struggle in infection prevention and control (IPC), and infection preventionists are faced with a myriad of factors influencing healthcare personnel (HCP) behavior – as well as their own in response.
Explore the March-April 2025 Edition
The modern patient safety movement owes a debt of gratitude to the early pioneers such as Lucian Leape, who was one of the authors of the seminal report, To Err is Human, produced by the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) which helped launch not just the field of patient safety but the broader interest in healthcare quality since the report’s release in 2000. As Schiff and Shojania (2021) point out, Leape addressed the competence of clinicians as part of the safety movement: “The most important initial insight of the patient safety movement was that errors are largely the result of bad systems, not bad people. However, Leape does not rest on the more superficial and simplistic application of this principle. He recognized that incompetent individuals in themselves have their roots in system problems and explores ways of addressing them.”
Explore the Jan-Feb 2025 Edition
While the 2023 annual National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report shows decreases in the major HAIs, experts remind healthcare professionals of the importance of not being complacent around upholding patient and personnel safety as we begin 2025.
