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Health Department Partnership Coordination Strategies to Enhance Surveillance, Increase Resources and Staffing, and Improve Communication and Collaboration (ASTHO)

This report by the Associaton of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) highlights examples of health department partnership coordination strategies to enhance surveillance, increase resource and staffing capacity, and improve communication and collaboration in order to strengthen infection prevention and control practices during the COVID-19 response.

April 9, 2021 Read More

CORHA Releases a Planning and Preparation High-Level Guidance Chapter (CORHA)

CORHA released Chapter 3: Planning and Preparation for Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogen Outbreak Response. The resource includes information on agency roles, outbreak response team, resources, records management, communication, escalation, and more.

March 29, 2021 Read More

State Spotlight: How Montana Leverages Partnerships to Manage COVID-19 Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities (CORHA)

National Estimates of Healthcare Costs Associated With Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections Among Hospitalized Patients in the United States (Clinical Infectious Disease)

Feds Say Doc’s Offices in SF and San Mateo Provided Knock-Off Cosmetic Treatments (San Francisco Examiner)

MMWR on COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program — Kentucky, March 2021 (CDC)

MMWR on Postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Skilled Nursing Facility Residents and Staff Members — Chicago, Illinois, December 2020–March 2021 (CDC)

Health Department Partnership Coordination Strategies to Enhance Surveillance, Increase Resources and Staffing, and Improve Communication and Collaboration (ASTHO)

CORHA Releases a Planning and Preparation High-Level Guidance Chapter (CORHA)

How Long-Term Care Facilities Can Help Monitor COVID-19 Vaccine Safety (CDC)

MMWR on Effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Among Residents of Two Skilled Nursing Facilities Experiencing COVID-19 Outbreaks — Connecticut, December 2020–February 2021 (CDC)

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections During the Early Months of 2020, National Healthcare Safety Network (ICHE)