HAI Resources for Healthcare Workers

General Infection Prevention Resources

• CDC's Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings
• CDC and HICPAC Guidelines Library
• Association of Professional in Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology (APIC)
• APIC Chapters Serving Georgia
• The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology in America (SHEA)
• Vaccination Action Coalition
• CDC Influenza Infection Control and Isolation Precautions
• Bloodborne Pathogens - Standards | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (osha.gov)
• AIPAC Observation Tools Library
• Hand Hygiene Policy Template
• Cleaning of Equipment Policy Template
• CDC Isolation Signs
• Line Listing Template
• Infection Control Assessment and Response tool

Prevention Collaborative in Georgia

• States targeting Reduction in Infection Via Engagement (STRIVE)

► Toolkits

Acute Care Hospitals

• SHEA Compendium of strategies to Prevent HAI in Acute Care Hospitals
  • Strategies to Prevent HAI in Acute Care Hospitals
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Infection Control Worksheet
  • CMS Infection Control Hospital Worksheet

  ♦ Hand Hygiene

• Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings 

  ♦ Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Donning and Doffing

• CDC Sequence for Donning and Removing Personal Protective Equipment
  • CDC Donning and Doffing

  ♦ Urinary Catheter Appropriate Use, Insertion, and Maintenance

• American Nurses Association CAUTI Prevention Tool
  • ANA CAUTI Prevention Tool
• CDC TAP CAUTI Toolkit Implementation Guide
  • CDC TAP CAUTI Toolkit

  ♦ Central Venous Catheter Appropriate Use, Insertion, and          Maintenance

• CDC Checklist for Prevention of Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections
  • CDC CLABSI Checklist
• AHRQ Tools for Reducing CLABSI

Long Term Care

  ♦ General Infection Prevention

• CDC Infection Prevention Resources for Long-term Care
• Interim Guidance for Influenza Outbreak management for Acute Care and Post Acute

  ♦ Healthcare Personnel Safety

• Georgia Tuberculosis Reference Guidelines
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Bloodborne Pathogen and Needlestick Prevention Standard 

  ♦ Hand Hygiene

• Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings 

  ♦ Personal Protective Equipment

• 2007 Guidelines for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings
• Management of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in Healthcare Settings, 2006
• CDC Sequence for Donning and Removing Personal Protective Equipment
  • Measuring Hand Hygiene Adherence

  ♦ Antimicrobial Stewardship

• GDPH HAIs Antimicrobial Stewardship website 

  ♦ Urinary Catheters: Appropriate Use, Insertion, and Maintenance

• AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long Term Care

  ♦ Safe Injection and Point of Care Testing Practices

• CDC Injection Safety Web Materials
• CDC training video and related Safe Injection Practices Campaign materials
• Infection Prevention during Blood Glucose Monitoring and Insulin Administration 

  ♦ Environmental Infection Control

• Environmental Infection Control Guidelines
• Options for Evaluating Environmental Infection Control
• Environmental controls for Healthcare Facilities: Bedding and Laundry 

Hemodialysis

• Making Dialysis Safer Coalition
• Prevention Bloodstream Infection in Outpatients Hemodialysis Patients, Best Practices for Staff (Video)
• "Days since last bloodstream infection" poster
• Resource center for staff education, audits and checklist
• Patient Education
• Guidelines Recommendations and Resources

Ambulatory Facilities

• Guidelines for Infection Prevention in Outpatient Settings  

Last updated 02/04/2019

TAP Reports

The Targeted Assessment for Prevention (TAP) report presents healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data to assist facilities in assessing their performance and progress for self-improvement. 2015 was the first year the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) created and sent TAP reports to Georgia facilities. 

Georgia Healthcare-Associated Infections Reports (by request)

Georgia Department of Public Health Healthcare-Associated Infections Report; 2015-2016.  

This report provides aggregate Georgia HAI data to establish 2013 baselines, to compare state performance to national and state goals, and to measure progress between 2013 and 2014. This report provides data from 125 Georgia facilities on the following HAI:

1. Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI)
2. Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)
3. Surgical site infections (SSI) following colon surgery (COLO)
4. Surgical site infections following abdominal hysterectomy (HYST)
5. Laboratory-identified (LabID) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) found in the bloodstream
6. Laboratory-identified Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) found in stool

Georgia Department of Public Health Healthcare-Associated Infections Report; January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014

Last updated 5/8/2018

Georgia HAI Advisory Committee (GHAIAC)

The Georgia HAI Advisory Committee (GHAIAC) is a voluntary committee charged with making recommendations to the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) on the prevention of HAIs. The committee was created on December 2, 2009 by recommendation of stakeholders and appointed by DPH. The first meeting of the committee was held on June 30, 2010. The committee includes persons with expertise in surveillance, prevention and control of HAIs, healthcare providers, infection preventionists, hospital administrators, healthcare consumers, and physicians with expertise in infectious disease and epidemiology.

CDI Policy Update (by request) - Issued April 22, 2014; Updated January 5, 2018: GeorgiaHealthcare Associated Infections Advisory Committee Policy Statement - Laboratory Diagnosis of Clostridioides difficile for Healthcare Facilities

Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes 2010-2016 (by request)

Last updated 03/08/2018