Program Goals

  • Early detection of potential infectious disease outbreaks

  • Provide guidance to the center-based IPC nurse on assessing, developing, implementing, monitoring, and managing the IPC Program for the facility

  • Meet CMS RoP’s staff training requirements.

  • Guidance on containment of antimicrobial resistance (AR) /MDRO’s

  • QAA/QAPI program development and implementation – Interventional Analytics provide confidence in infection risk reduction programs.  Assistance with the development of reports and resources for healthcare facilities

  • Meet CMS antimicrobial stewardship benchmarks and reduction of unnecessary antibiotic utilization.

  • Pre- and Post-Survey prep with focus on Ftags: F880, F881, F882, F883, F866, F945 Infection Control Training

  • Meets CDC's definition of Comprehensive Surveillance – ICAR audits, Outcome and Process surveillance

  • Decreased Rehospitalization rates through early, targeted, and informed interventions.

Program Features

  • LTC-CIP Certified Infection Preventionist assigned to your facility

  • Mentorship, professional development and educational services for your clinical leadership and center-based IPC Nurse. Trains and evaluates nurses on infection prevention practices.

  • Remote monitoring of EHRs for potential infections, ABT 3-day timeouts and appropriate antimicrobial utilization.

  • Infectious Disease Outbreak Alerts - Your assigned IPCNurse Consultant works with their laboratory vendor to obtain facility testing data reports for UTI’s, Cdiff and other MDROs. The data is used in outcome surveillance, determination of Incidents/prevalence and validating compliance with all reporting requirements.

  • 24/7 access to your assigned IPCnurse in addition to clinical resources, Medical Directors, and professional networks.

  • Promotes the use of tools developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), State Department of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and other partners for the prevention of HAIs.