With so many changes taking place, it can be difficult for nursing homes to keep up. Our consultants are trained and certified in Infection Control and can help facilities with compliance issues cited during the FICs.
Infection prevention and control is a large part of your survey readiness, as well as essential to maintaining and improving the well-being of your residents. The Comply team will work with you to establish long-standing policies and procedures by:
- Evaluating your facility and community risk
- Establishing surveillance systems
- Developing systems for preventing, identifying, reporting, investigating, and controlling infections and communicable diseases.
- Implementing and determining processes for using standard precautions, and transmission-based precautions
- Establishing effective environmental cleaning and disinfecting
- Implementing systems for early detection and management of infectious disease before spread
- Forming processes for admissions and discharges of potentially infectious and symptomatic residents
- Developing systems on how to proceed if an outbreak is identified
- Educating staff on Medical Device Safety
- Creating systems for recording IPCP incidents
- Providing education on safe cleaning of linens, mattresses, and pillows
- Completing annual review of IPCP practices
