Section 131.23. Infection control.

 

(1)   Infection control program. The hospice shall maintain and document an effective infection control program that protects patients, families, visitors, and hospice employees by preventing and controlling infections and communicable diseases.

(2)   Prevention. The hospice shall follow accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases, including the use of standard precautions.

(3)   Control. The hospice shall maintain a coordinated agency-wide program for the surveillance, identification, prevention, control, and investigation of infectious and communicable diseases that:

(a) Is an integral part of the hospice's quality assessment and performance improvement program; and

(b) Includes all of the following:

1. A method of identifying infectious and communicable disease problems.

2. A plan for implementing the appropriate actions that are expected to result in improvement and disease prevention.

(4)   Education.

(a) The hospice shall provide infection control education to employees, contracted providers, patients, and family members and other caregivers.

(b) The hospice shall develop and implement initial orientation and ongoing education and training for all hospice workers having direct patient contact, including students, trainees and volunteers, in the epidemiology, modes of transmission, prevention of infection and the need for routine use of current infection control measures as recommended by the U.S. centers for disease control and prevention.

History: CR 10-034 : cr. Register September 2010 No. 657 , eff. 10-1-10.