Wrapping Your Mind Around IPC in Behavioral Health Facilities
Behavioral health facilities can face unique IPC challenges because group therapy and social interactions are an important component of patients’ treatment plans, and IPC requirements such as isolation or masking can be detrimental to the patients. Join us for a discussion of how to approach some of these challenges, including COVID-19 testing prior to admission and ill health care workers. Different facility types have different infection prevention and control (IPC) challenges and needs, and IPC experts are not always readily available. Yet IPC is everyone’s responsibility and is expected as standard of care.