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September is Sepsis Awareness Month and CDC encourages its partners, patients, and healthcare professionals to share how sepsis can be...
Sep 07, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
This video series was developed from interviews with BLOC COVID funded sites to highlight the LHD’s lessons learned, best practices,...
Jul 06, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson, Candice Young
NACCHO, in partnership with the CDC, has compiled resources to enhance the capacity of local health department staff to address unique...
Jun 01, 2022 | Erin Laird, Kimberly Nalley
NACCHO will award up to $60,000 for a consultant, or consulting firm, to assist NACCHO with conducting a workforce assessment to...
May 02, 2022 | Candice Young
NACCHO will award up to $100,000 for a consultant, or consulting firm, to assist NACCHO with the development, implementation, and...
Apr 21, 2022 | Erin Laird
To advance local health department engagement in IPC activities, NACCHO, in partnership with Project Firstline, released a new report...
Sep 08, 2021 | Erin Laird
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which people acquire while receiving treatment or care for another condition, affect 1 in 25...
Jun 30, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
September is Sepsis Awareness Month and CDC encourages its partners, patients, and healthcare professionals to share how sepsis can be prevented. Get Ahead of Sepsis is a national educational effort that emphasizes the importance of early recognition, timely treatment, reassessment of antibiotic needs, and prevention of infections.
This video series was developed from interviews with BLOC COVID funded sites to highlight the LHD’s lessons learned, best practices, tools developed, and provide associated resources to prevent and respond to COVID-19 in various high-risk settings for others to consider in their capacity building efforts.
NACCHO, in partnership with the CDC, has compiled resources to enhance the capacity of local health department staff to address unique needs in a range of high-risk facility types.
NACCHO will award up to $60,000 for a consultant, or consulting firm, to assist NACCHO with conducting a workforce assessment to evaluate LHD staff capacity related to healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antimicrobial resistance (AR). The selected consultant will create assessment tools, conduct data collection and analysis, and develop a final report with results.
NACCHO will award up to $100,000 for a consultant, or consulting firm, to assist NACCHO with the development, implementation, and analysis of an assessment to identify the essential (i.e. “soft”) skills training needs of LHD staff engaged in infection prevention and control (IPC) activities. The selected consultant will work collaboratively with NACCHO, developing assessment tools, collecting...
To advance local health department engagement in IPC activities, NACCHO, in partnership with Project Firstline, released a new report highlighting the IPC activities conducted by LHDs, their training needs, and opportunities to bolster IPC capacity at the local level.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which people acquire while receiving treatment or care for another condition, affect 1 in 25 hospital patients in the United States each year and can lead to sepsis or death. HAI risks are not limited to hospital patients and can occur in any healthcare setting (e.g., long-term care, dialysis clinics, doctor’s offices). With […]
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