VDH Environmental Checklist

This is a checklist as an EXCEL worksheet that can be used electronically or printed. It provides a list of expected cleaning tasks. It can be edited to individualize it for different facilities.

2 – Foundational
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Adult Day Care
All settings
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Any Practice Setting
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Behavioral Health Facilities
Checklist
Cleaning and Disinfection
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
Dental
Department of Health
Dialysis
Downloadable
Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
English
Free
Home Health
Hospice and Palliative Care
Infection Preventionists
Mobile Clinic
Non-Clinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Pediatric / NICU
Physical Environment / Environment of Care (EOC)
Spreadsheet
Standard Precautions
VDH

VDH Environmental Checklist for Blood Spills

This is a checklist as an EXCEL worksheet that can be used electronically or printed. It provides a list of expected cleaning tasks to be performed after a spill of blood or other potentially infectious bodily fluids. It can be edited to individualize it for different facilities.

2 – Foundational
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Adult Day Care
All settings
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Any Practice Setting
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Behavioral Health Facilities
Bloodborne Pathogens
Checklist
Cleaning and Disinfection
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
Dental
Department of Health
Dialysis
Downloadable
Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
English
Free
Hand Hygiene
Home Health
Hospice and Palliative Care
Infection Preventionists
Injection Safety
Mobile Clinic
Non-Clinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Pediatric / NICU
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Physical Environment / Environment of Care (EOC)
Spreadsheet
Standard Precautions
VDH

VDH Hand Hygiene and PPE Monitoring Tool by Precaution Type

This is a spreadsheet-based tool for monitoring hand hygiene and PPE compliance. It can be printed portable use or used for recording and analysis.

2 – Foundational
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Adult Day Care
All settings
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Any Practice Setting
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Auditing / Observation / Monitoring / Assessment Tools
Behavioral Health Facilities
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
Data Analysis
Dental
Department of Health
Dialysis
Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
English
Free
Hand Hygiene
Home Health
Hospice and Palliative Care
Infection Preventionists
Mobile Clinic
Non-Clinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Pediatric / NICU
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Print Resources
Quality Improvement
Risk Assessment
Spreadsheet
Standard Precautions
Transmission-Based Precautions
VDH

HICPAC Sample Facility Endoscope Inventory: Flexible Endoscopes

This is an EXCEL worksheet designed for facilities to use as a template to develop their own tool to track their flexible endoscope inventory and repair and maintenance log. This sample inventory is designed to be used in conjunction with the Repair and Maintenance Log. The inventory should be updated any time (1) there is a change in the status or cleaning protocol of a flexible endoscope; (2) a new flexible endoscope is purchased or (3) a flexible endoscope is decommissioned. It can be part of a facility’s risk assessment.

Intermediate
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Auditing / Observation / Monitoring / Assessment Tools
CDC
Cleaning and Disinfection
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
English
Free
High Level Disinfection
Infection Preventionists
Non-Clinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Pediatric / NICU
Quality Improvement
Risk Assessment
Sterile Processing
Toolkit

Accessing and Reporting Antibiotic Prescription Data

This is an EXCEL spreadsheet that details how to obtain antibiotic prescribing data from the electronic health record and calculate antibiotic prescription rates to be used for tracking progress and providing feedback to the practice and individual prescribing clinicians.

Advanced

AHRQ

Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care

Antimicrobial & Diagnostic Stewardship

Auditing / Observation / Monitoring / Assessment Tools

Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel

Data Analysis

English

Free

Influenza (Flu)

Respiratory Infections

Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) & Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)

Develop and Improve Antibiotic Stewardship Activities in Your Practice

Webpage that provides a compendium of tools for developing and maintaining an antimicrobial stewardship program in an ambulatory setting. It contains training slides sets with facilitator guides, a tool for establishing a program timeline, a tool for performing a gap analysis, commitment posters (in English and Spanish), and a template for a spreadsheet to record and analyze antimicrobial prescribing practices.

Intermediate

AHRQ

Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care

Ambulatory Surgery

Antimicrobial & Diagnostic Stewardship

Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel