Infection control benefits everyone.
Infection control prevents the spread of disease in healthcare settings. Following simple, evidence-based practices protects you, your patients and your community.
Stay up to date on best practices. Check out the resources below. We also offer:
- Help with communicable disease and reporting questions.
- Help with outbreak investigation and control.
- Visits from Public Health Consultants who provide public health information and updates.
When transferring a patient, hospitals and long-term care facilities must complete the
Inter-Facility Infection Prevention and Safety Form.
Precautions
- CDC standard precautions page.
- MRSA.
- Infection prevention guidelines for foot care.
- Multidrug-resistant organisms and enhanced barrier precautions.
- Screening for targeted MDROs and C. auris at your facility.
Injection safety
Hand hygiene
Environmental cleaning
Personal protective equipment
- How to properly put on and take off PPE.
- CDC sequence for donning and doffing PPE.
Assisted living and long-term care
- Norovirus/vomiting/diarrhea outbreaks—Know your facility’s normal gastrointestinal illness rate. This will help you quickly identify outbreaks. Use this toolkit if you suspect an outbreak.
- Environmental Cleaning Resource for Healthcare Settings During Norovirus Outbreaks—Provides general norovirus outbreak management information for healthcare facilities, including long-term care settings.
- Assisted living flu outbreaks—Congregate living facilities must provide a safe living environment. Use this tool to quickly identify and control flu outbreaks.
- Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department response guide.
- Washington State Department of Health response checklist.
Patient materials
Other resources
Last revised Nov. 19, 2024 November means so many things. It’s the start of the holiday season. It’s also the start of respiratory illness season.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department joins other local health jurisdictions in fully supporting the data-informed decision by healthcare organizations to require masking in their facilities when
We are working with Washington State Department of Health and Thurston County Public Health and Social Services to investigate 6 cases of the foodborne illness
A Pierce County man was diagnosed July 13 with colonization due to Candida auris, a multidrug-resistant fungus that can cause serious infections. It’s believed to