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42 CFR 484.70 — Condition of Participation: Infection Prevention and Control

FederalregulationCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services· effective 2018-01-13

What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The HHA must provide infection control education to staff, patients, and caregiver(s) (subd. c).(42 CFR 484.70 — Condition of Participation: Infection Prevention and Control)
  • 2The HHA must maintain a coordinated agency-wide program for the surveillance, identification, prevention, control, and investigation of infectious and communicable diseases that is an integral part of its QAPI program, including a method for identifying infectious and communicable disease problems and a plan for appropriate actions expected to result in improvement and disease prevention (subd. b).(42 CFR 484.70 — Condition of Participation: Infection Prevention and Control)
  • 3The HHA must maintain and document an infection control program whose goal is the prevention and control of infections and communicable diseases (introductory paragraph).(42 CFR 484.70 — Condition of Participation: Infection Prevention and Control)
  • 4The HHA must follow accepted standards of practice, including the use of standard precautions, to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases (subd. a).(42 CFR 484.70 — Condition of Participation: Infection Prevention and Control)

Applies to: home health

Federal home health Condition of Participation requiring each HHA to maintain and document an infection prevention and control program — following accepted standards of practice and standard precautions, operating a coordinated agency-wide surveillance and control program integral to QAPI, and providing infection control education to staff, patients, and caregivers. Cross-cutting federal baseline for the Infection Prevention & Control topic.

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