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| 7/14/2025 | Stay current with infection prevention best practices through our monthly regional IP seminars, open to all healthcare and public health professionals across Oregon.
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| 4/18/2025 | Join the upcoming Oregon Long-term Care Facility Antibiotic Stewardship Learning Series. Sign up for a 1-hour monthly training on best practices for antibiotic stewardship in nursing, assisted living, and residential care facilities. Sessions are on the 4th Wednesday of each month starting April 23, and participants who complete all 6 sessions will receive a certificate. Sign up: contact Ryan Frick, Population Health Epidemiologist. |
| 4/17/2025 | Read the April edition of the HAI Chronicle. Sign up for future newsletters.
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| 3/25/2025 | The hospital HAI data dashboard has been updated to include 2023 and shows progress in reducing health care-associated infections in Oregon hospitals. View the
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| 11/18/2024 | Read the November edition of the HAI Chronicle.
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| 11/1/2024 | Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health crisis driven by the unnecessary use of antibiotics, particularly for conditions like acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs). Despite promising trends showing a decline in prescribing for ARTIs, recent data reveals antibiotic prescriptions are nearing pre-pandemic levels. Discover what it means for public health in our latest report, Antibiotic Prescribing in Oregon: Outpatient Settings 2018-2022. |
| 10/17/2024 | Read the October edition of the HAI Chronicle. |
| 8/5/2024 | Read the August edition of the HAI Chronicle.
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| 5/7/2024 | Taking control of your building's air quality! We've launched a new Ventilation Toolkit to help facilities understand how air flows through their building and steps to take for a healthier environment. Want to see it in action? Watch the video for a visual representation of the toolkit's content.
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| 5/3/2024 | A new report investigates pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) infections in the Tri-County area of Oregon in 2021 and 2022.
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| 5/1/2024 | After increasing Candidemia cases in the last three years, in the Tri-County area of Oregon, an updated report shows a decrease in 2023. Candidemia is a blood infection with mortality rates above 40%. Hospitalized people or those with risk factors such as severely weakened immune systems are most at risk.
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| 4/11/2024 | Read the April 2024 edition of the HAI Chronicle.
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| 4/9/2024 | OHA's Healthcare Associated Infections Program released new Admission Screening Guidance for healthcare facilities. Testing is provided at no cost to facilities. Contact us to get started.
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| 11/23/2023 | Oregon has implemented new reporting requirements to better track antimicrobial resistance. These include requirements for reporting Candida auris, carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter, and organisms identified as carbapenem-producing organisms by clinical laboratories. In addition to these, OHA is interested in any pan-resistant organism, and health care professionals are asked to report them per OAR 333-018-0015.
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