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In this webinar, attendees had the opportunity to learn about the Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections...
Jan 24, 2023 | Irene Halferty
Apply today! NACCHO is offering a scholarship opportunity for local health department staff obtaining certification in infection...
Jan 09, 2023 | Jaclyn Abramson
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the country’s nearly 3,000 local health...
Dec 07, 2022 | Nicholas Holmes
HAIs and AMR are a threat to patients, and subsequently, public health safety. Rural, Frontier, and Small LHDs face distinct barriers...
Dec 01, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
Nov 21, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
Applications due December 19. NACCHO is giving funds to local health departments to enhance local capacity to prevent and respond to...
Nov 08, 2022 | Candice Young
Apply today! NACCHO is excited to announce an opportunity for a new cohort to partner with APIC Consulting Services to provide...
Oct 24, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
Have you ever wondered where the creepy creatures with Halloween originated? Believe it or not, local health departments still keep...
Oct 18, 2022 | Kimberly Nalley, Jaclyn Abramson, Graham Briggs, Erin Laird
The Shared Healthcare Intervention to Eliminate Life-Threatening Dissemination of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in Orange...
Oct 13, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
In this webinar, attendees had the opportunity to learn about the Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens (AR), or CORHA, and resources available to them through the Council. The presentation included an overview of the updated CDC Containment of Novel/Emerging Pathogens Guidance, as well as feature a local health department’s...
Apply today! NACCHO is offering a scholarship opportunity for local health department staff obtaining certification in infection control (CIC) or a-IPC (Associate – Infection Prevention and Control) entry-level certification. The deadline to submit an application is the end of the day on Friday, January 27.
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the country’s nearly 3,000 local health departments, joins the World Health Organization (WHO) in adopting the recommended name change of monkeypox. The organization proposed changing the name of the virus to ‘mpox’, in an announcement released on November 28. Both names will be used simultaneously for one year...
HAIs and AMR are a threat to patients, and subsequently, public health safety. Rural, Frontier, and Small LHDs face distinct barriers and can provide leadership in surveillance, outbreak investigations, and prevention by collaborating with healthcare and community partners.
Applications due December 19. NACCHO is giving funds to local health departments to enhance local capacity to prevent and respond to healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistant threats by piloting and implementing CDC's Local Strategy for HAI/AR.
Apply today! NACCHO is excited to announce an opportunity for a new cohort to partner with APIC Consulting Services to provide technical assistance to local health departments (LHDs) to increase infection prevention and control (IPC) capacity. LHDs selected for this opportunity will enhance their IPC capacity to better respond to threats such as COVID-19 and healthcare-associated infections in...
Have you ever wondered where the creepy creatures with Halloween originated? Believe it or not, local health departments still keep these monsters at bay with the work they do every day.
The Shared Healthcare Intervention to Eliminate Life-Threatening Dissemination of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in Orange County (SHIELD OC) Program, was a CDC-funded public health regional decolonization collaborative to combat the spread of endemic and emerging MDROs across healthcare facilities in Orange County, California.
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