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Welcome to the HEIP

The goals of the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention are to:

• Provide epidemiologic analysis based on the results of surveillance, risk assessment, communicable disease exposure follow-up, outbreak investigation, and other data.
• Provide direct interventions at the patient, location, and service levels where needs are identified and where risk-reduction or change in practice is likely to have long-term success.
• Provide education to personnel, patients and visitors with an emphasis on their role in infection prevention.
• Develop thresholds of infection rates for surgical procedures and device-related infections above which department action is indicated.
• Ensure regulatory, accreditation and legal compliance related to infection prevention issues.