The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
NACCHO’s Infectious Diseases Team is featured in the November/December 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and...
Sep 30, 2020 | Christina Baum
The Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections & Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens recently developed COVID-19...
Aug 03, 2020 | Erin Laird
CDC recently began reporting data on carbapenemase genes detected through nationwide testing in CDC’s AR Lab Network.
Jun 24, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO, with support from CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, is pleased to provide funding for the Building Local...
Jun 03, 2020 | Christina Baum
On May 18, NACCHO released high-level results of its 2019 Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and Antibiotic Resistance (AR)...
May 18, 2020 | Erin Laird
The Leaders in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Public Health (LEAP) Fellowship application deadline has been extended...
Feb 13, 2020 | Christina Baum
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in about one out of every 31 hospital patients. In 2015, the last year for which data...
Nov 21, 2019 | Erin Laird
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the public’s health, and local health departments (LHDs) have become increasingly...
Nov 18, 2019 | Christina Baum
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI)...
Nov 06, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO’s Infectious Diseases Team is featured in the November/December 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
The Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections & Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens recently developed COVID-19 outbreak definitions for acute care settings and long-term care facilities.
NACCHO, with support from CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, is pleased to provide funding for the Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19 (BLOC COVID-19) demonstration site project to strengthen local infection prevention and control (IPC) capacity.
On May 18, NACCHO released high-level results of its 2019 Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Assessment. The resource highlights the extent to which LHDs engage in HAI/AR activities, existing LHD partner engagement, the role that LHDs play in outbreak response, and LHD capacity and infrastructure in HAI/AR prevention and control. These results can help inform...
The Leaders in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Public Health (LEAP) Fellowship application deadline has been extended until Monday, February 24th at Midnight Pacific Time. There is still time to start an application today and this will give those in the process a little more time to complete. The LEAP Fellowship is a 12 month funded […]
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in about one out of every 31 hospital patients. In 2015, the last year for which data are available, this resulted in 72,000 deaths attributed to HAIs. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health threat which compounds the challenge of HAIs. Antibiotic-resistant infections cause over 35,000 deaths each year and nine […]
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the public’s health, and local health departments (LHDs) have become increasingly involved to ensure their communities are prepared.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Progress Report, a snapshot of how each state and the country are doing in eliminating HAIs, showing significant progress nationally in reducing several hospital-acquired infections and highlighting that prevention of these infections is possible. Using data from CDC’s...
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NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
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