(1) The infection control program shall establish written policies and procedures prevention and to investigate, control, and prevent infections in the facility including policies and procedures to: (a) Identify [facility] infections and communicable diseases in accordance health care-associated with COMAR 10.06.01; Report occurrences of certain [communicable] diseases and outbreaks of (b) infectious [communicable] diseases to the local health department in infectious a timely manner in accordance with COMAR 10.06.01 and Health-General Article, §18-202, Annotated Code of Maryland; (c) Institute appropriate control steps] when an infection [infection control measures or outbreak is suspected or identified in order to control infection and prevent spread to other of infections residents; (d) Perform surveillance of for health care-associated and community-associated infections residents and employees [at appropriate intervals] definitions and methods approved by the to monitor and investigate causes of infection prevention and control oversight committee infection, and community acquired,] and the manner which it was] [facility-associated [in that spread; the infection is (e) employees about infection control, [and hygiene] including: prevention and (i) [Hand] hand hygiene; Standard precautions and [protection] (ii) Respiratory hygiene and etiquette; (iii) Soiled laundry and linen processing; [(iv) Needles, sharps, or both;] (iv) Safe handling of needles and sharps and injections safety; (v) Special medical waste handling and disposal; [and]
(1) The infection prevention and control program shall establish written policies and procedures to investigate, control, and prevent infections in the facility including policies and procedures to: (a) Identify [facility] health care-associated infections and communicable diseases in accordance with COMAR 10.06.01; (b) Report occurrences of certain [communicable] infectious diseases and outbreaks of [communicable] infectious diseases to the local health department in a timely manner in accordance with COMAR 10.06.01 and Health-General Article, §18-202, Annotated Code of Maryland; (c) Institute appropriate [infection control steps] control measures when an infection or outbreak of infections is suspected or identified in order to control infection and prevent spread to other residents; (d) Perform surveillance for health care-associated and community-associated infections of residents and employees [at appropriate intervals] definitions and methods approved by the infection prevention and control oversight committee to monitor and investigate causes of infection, [facility-associated and community acquired,] and the manner [in which it was] that the infection is spread; (e) employees about infection prevention and control, [and hygiene] including: (i) Standard precautions and [Hand] hand hygiene; (ii) Respiratory [protection] hygiene and etiquette; (iii) Soiled laundry and linen processing; [(iv) Needles, sharps, or both;] (iv) Safe handling of needles and sharps and injections safety; (v) Special medical waste handling and disposal; [and]
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