Policies and Procedures Residential and Assisted Living Communities Policy Title: Managing and Reporting Communicable Disease Policy Number: HS.11.10.25
Effective Date: 10/01/2016
Approved By: Kevin Cox
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Managing and Reporting Communicable Disease Local Health Department Requirements The boarding home needs to contact the local health department for local information pertaining to communicable diseases. A representative from the boarding home needs to contact local health department to report a resident with certain communicable diseases (name, address, phone number of resident). Local health departments may also have specific requirements for infectious waste handling/disposal. POLICY: Our goal is to prevent the spread of infectious diseases by carefully managing and reporting communicable diseases as necessary. PROCEDURE: 1. Staff will be asked to avoid contact with residents when ill with a communicable disease. Staff may be required to take a leave from work until a doctor’s statement to the effect that the illness is no longer communicable is provided. 2. Residents with communicable diseases will be asked to remain in their residence during periods of illness. Complimentary tray service will be provided to the residence. 3. Infection control monitoring will occur. Communicable Disease among Employees POLICY: A healthy environment includes special efforts to prevent communicable disease among employees and residents. Reportable diseases will be reported to the local health department. PROCEDURE: Hand washing will be done by all employees according to our policy and procedures (see Policy and Procedure, Hand washing). 1
Policies and Procedures Residential and Assisted Living Communities Policy Title: Managing and Reporting Communicable Disease Policy Number: HS.11.10.25
Effective Date: 10/01/2016 Revision Date: Page Number:
Approved By: Kevin Cox
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Gloves will be worn when appropriate according to the policy and procedure. If a staff member contracts a reportable communicable disease at the facility, the following procedures will be taken: 1. Contact the County Health Department and give the following information to them: Name, age, address and phone number of person(s) having the reportable disease. 2. Give staff duties which do not expose residents until a health care practitioner documents staff is no longer contagious, IF it was contracted through the work place. 3. Place staff on leave until a health care practitioner documents that the staff member is no longer contagious.
Reportable Diseases and Conditions The following diseases and conditions shall be reported as individual case reports to the County Health Department in accordance with requirements: Category “A” Diseases and Conditions
Reported immediately at the time a case is suspected or diagnosed and include: Animal bites
Botulism (foodborne and wound)
Brucellosis
Cholera
Diphtheria
Disease of suspected foodborne or waterborne origin Hepatitis A (acute)
E. Coli Listeriosis
Disease of suspected bioterrorism origin (including Anthrax & smallpox) Haemophilus influenzae (invasive) Measles (rubeola)
Meningococcal disease
Paralytic shellfish poisoning
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, or cluster) Relapsing fever (borreliosis)
Plague
Polio
Rubella
Salmonellosis
Shigellosis
Typhus
Yellow fever
Other rare diseases of public health significance
Unexplained critical illness or death
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Policies and Procedures Residential and Assisted Living Communities Policy Title: Managing and Reporting Communicable Disease Policy Number: HS.11.10.25
Effective Date: 10/01/2016 Revision Date: Page Number:
Approved By: Kevin Cox
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Category “B” Diseases and Conditions
Reported within three working days of being suspected or diagnosed and include: AIDS
Campylobacteriosis
Cancroid
Chlamydia
Cryptosporidiosis
Cylclosporiasis
Encephalitis, viral
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Hepatitis B (acute
Hepatitis B surface antigen (pregnant women) HIV
Hepatitis (infectious), unspecified Legionellosis
Herpes simplex – neonatal and genital Leptospirosis
Lyme disease
Lymphogranuloma Venereum
Malaria
Mumps
Pesticide poisoning (all others)
Psittacosis
Q fever Streptococcus, Group A, invasive
Rabies (including post-exposure prophylaxis) Syphilis
Serious adverse reactions to immunizations Tetanus
Trichinosis
Tularemia
Vibriosis
Yersiniosis
Category “C” Diseases or Conditions
Reported monthly and include: Asthma, occupational*
Birth defects – autism, cerebral, and fetal alcohol syndrome/effects *
Hepatitis B (chronic) – initial diagnosis, and previously unreported prevalent cases
Hepatitis C – acute and chronic
Any cluster or pattern of cases, suspected cases, deaths or increased incidence of any disease or condition beyond that expected in a given period which may indicate an outbreak, epidemic, or related public health hazard shall be reported immediately by telephone to the local health officer. To report Communicable Disease (including Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Disease) or Suspect Food Borne Illness, call ( )________-_________ 3
Policies and Procedures Residential and Assisted Living Communities Policy Title: Managing and Reporting Communicable Disease Policy Number:
ES.06.11.03 Effective Date: 10.1.16
Approved By: Kevin Cox
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