Groups such as the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and the Safe Care Campaign are raising public awareness with five simple steps patients can take toward not becoming a victim of these infections.

ThedaCare announced this week a three-year, $90 million project that redesigns nursing units and patient rooms at Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, WI., the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey reports that fewer office-based physicians are making hospital visits.