Infection Prevention & Control

• The EOH (Operational Hygiene Team) participates in the development of the prevention strategy with an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) program. It adapts existing guidelines to the local context, disseminates them, and ensures the implementation of healthcare-associated infection prevention actions in collaboration with clinical and medical-technical services.

The EOH contributes to the definition and implementation of the training plan for professionals around infectious risk and its management in collaboration with the medical and nursing management of services or sectors of activity, in the field of prevention of healthcare-associated infections, infectious risks related to the healthcare environment and epidemic and biological risks.

Infection risk monitoring concerns the frequency of healthcare-associated infections, the monitoring of certain microbiological quality indicators of the healthcare environment, as well as alerts and reporting, including serious adverse events associated with care.

The EOH participates in the development of the clinical surveillance strategy for patients and the environment (epidemiological surveillance of infections, plan for microbiological sampling of the environment in sectors under surveillance, etc.).

The EOH communicates within the establishment on the monitoring data of the IAS, the results and the evolution of the indicators, the alerts contributing to the information of decision-makers in order to improve practices and organizations.

The Infection Control Team (ICT) plays a major role in implementing professional practice evaluations (PPE) in the area of ​​infection IPC ) (audit programs, risk assessments, etc.) and in developing indicators to evaluate the implementation of the IPC within the institution. These evaluations contribute to the development and improvement of professional practice improvement programs and their monitoring.

The laboratory performs environmental sampling and microbiological analyses within the facility in connection with the monitoring and prevention of environmental infection risks. The laboratory's activities include microbiological analysis of water (drinking water, water for standard care, hemodialysis, etc.), endoscopes, air and surfaces in controlled atmosphere zones, and the sterility of pharmaceutical products. The laboratory also participates in the investigation of infectious events of environmental origin.