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Spotlight Series

CORHA's Spotlight Series looks at the successes and challenges experienced on the local, state, and national levels when responding to and managing HAI/AR outbreaks across the healthcare continuum. Featured stories also include leadership perspectives of key individuals to improve policies and practices for the detection, investigation, control, and prevention of HAI/AR outbreaks from members of the CORHA Governance Committee.

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November 2023 Fall Meeting Recap

Posted: December 14, 2023 CORHA members and partners convened in Atlanta, GA for the annual hybrid CORHA Fall Meeting. Council members engaged in two days of meeting discussions that...… Read More »

Jennifer Jones, 2023 McKnight Prize for Healthcare Outbreak Heroes Recipient

Posted: October 16, 2023 Jennifer Jones, Senior Infection Preventionist at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, part of Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan is the recipient of the 2023...… Read More »

Leadership Spotlight: Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian

Posted: August 29, 2023 Author: Natasha Bagdasarian, MD, MPH For almost 20 years, my career has focused on hospital epidemiology, infection prevention and control (IPC), and antimicrobial stewardship programs...… Read More »

Lisa Hannah, 2022 McKnight Prize for Healthcare Outbreak Heroes Recipient

Posted: March 20, 2023 Lisa Hannah, RN, CIC, is the Infection Prevention Team Supervisor at the Washington State Department of Health. Her infection prevention and control work during the...… Read More »

November 2022 Fall Meeting Recap

Posted: December 15, 2022 In early November 2022, after almost three years of virtual meetings, council representatives and workgroup members convened in Atlanta, GA for the hybrid CORHA Fall...… Read More »

Introducing CORHA’s Principles and Practices for Healthcare Outbreak Response and its Importance

The field of healthcare epidemiology has expanded tremendously and now encompasses an extensive network of stakeholders working collaboratively across healthcare settings, government agencies, and partner organizations to decrease healthcare-associated...… Read More »

CORHA Governance Committee CSTE Roundtable Discussion

On June 21, CORHA Governance Committee members Drs. Erin Epson and Dawn Terashita convened 150 people for a virtual roundtable discussion at the annual CSTE Conference where they provided...… Read More »

The Importance of Patient Notification and CORHA’s HAI Outbreak Notification Framework (Part 2)

Part Two: CORHA’s New HAI Outbreak Notification Framework Posted: June 16, 2022 Authors: Maureen Tierney, MD, MSc., FIDSA, Moon Kim, MD, MPH, & Dawn Terashita, MD, MPH In...… Read More »

The Importance of Patient Notification and CORHA’s HAI Outbreak Notification Framework (Part 1)

Leadership: Pandemic Response – Public Health Laboratories Rise to the Challenges, with Kelly Wroblewski, Association of Public Health Laboratories

Posted: February 24, 2022 Author: Kelly Wroblewski Public health laboratories are foundational to our nation’s public health infrastructure. While the COVID-19 pandemic response presented many significant challenges for public...… Read More »

Leadership: Dawn Terashita & Zachary Rubin, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on the Future of HAI/AR Response in the Face of COVID-19

Posted: January 14, 2022 Authors: Dawn Terashita, MD, MPH, FACPM & Zachary Rubin, MD COVID-19 has impacted healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial-resistant (HAI/AR) threats across all healthcare settings. COVID-19 has...… Read More »

Leadership: New CDC Funding Recognizes Healthcare Outbreak Response Needs

Posted: December 9, 2021 Author: Joseph Perz, DrPH, MA The Biden-Harris Administration and CDC recently announced a $2.1 billion investment as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP), to...… Read More »

Leadership: Linda Greene, Director of Hospital Infection Prevention at the University of Rochester Highland Hospital

Posted: October 19, 2021 Author: Linda Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPIC “…The greatest outbreak and infection prevention and control challenges I have witnessed were related to COVID-19.” As a front-line infection preventionist and Director of Infection...… Read More »

Leadership: Kelley Garner, Arkansas Department of Health, on the Value of Mentorship in the HAI/AR Outbreak Response

Posted: September 30, 2021 Author: Kelley Garner, MPH Don’t be afraid of mentorship at every level of your career – constantly surround yourself with experts in the field. Mentorship...… Read More »

Leadership: Leadership Perspectives from Dr. David Gifford

Posted: August 5, 2021 Author: David Gifford, MD, MPH My work over the past 20 years has focused on how to improve the healthcare system to ultimately improve healthcare...… Read More »

Local: LTCF Vaccine Education Program Vital to Chicago’s COVID-19 Outbreak Response Effort

Posted: July 22, 2021 Authors: Shannon Xydis, Projects Administrator, HAI Coordinator, Chicago Department of Public Health; Liz Shane, MPH, CIC. Infection Prevention Specialist, Chicago Department of Public Health, and Christy...… Read More »

State: How the Texas State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program Increased Capacity in Public Health Regions to Support Healthcare Facilities During the COVID-19 Response

Posted: May 19, 2021 Authors: Dr. Enyinnaya Merengwa, Healthcare Safety Investigations Group Manager and State HAI Coordinator at the Texas Department of State Health Services and Thi Dang, HAI Epidemiologist...… Read More »

State: Montana Leverages Partnerships to Manage COVID-19 Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities

Posted: April 29, 2021 Author: Erika Baldry, Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR) Epidemiologist and Program Coordinator at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) Montana,...… Read More »

Disclaimer: The positions and views expressed in these materials do not necessarily represent the official positions of CORHA’s member organizations.