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Local Health Department Resource Page
Long-term care facilities (LTCFs)
- Management of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in long-term-care facilities
- Letter to LCTFs: a reminder of the services that local health departments offer with infection-control issues, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, and food handler training.
To read the letter, view the PDF file; download either the Word Perfect 8.0 or MS Word 2000 file to customize your own version. Remember to: 1) Right-click the link; 2) choose 'Save File'. (save the Tab-delimited file with a .txt extension).
Download the LTCF letter
Download a list of long-term-care facilities
Disease reporting and outbreak investigation in LTCFs
Investigating gastroenteritis outbreaks in nursing homes and similar settings
Outbreak investigation protocol and evaluation tool
Also see the infection control page for suggested control measures, and the disease and outbreak investigation page for reporting, specimen collection and other guidelines.
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