The CDC reaffirms N95s for healthcare worker protection against H1N1
Hospital Safety Connection, October 21, 2009
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospital Safety Connection!
As we first reported last week on our Twitter account and in Mac’s Safety Space, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued revised interim guidelines that continue to recommend that healthcare workers wear N95 respirators when within 6 ft. of patients with suspected or confirmed H1H1 swine flu.
However, the CDC also noted N95 supply concerns and recommended a variety of measures that may help conserve respirators and other personal protective equipment.
Meanwhile, OSHA issued a statement saying it expects hospitals to follow the CDC’s recommendations and show a good faith effort to acquire respirators should supplies be limited.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospital Safety Connection!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Billing telemetry daily monitoring
- Credentialing monthly: What is the role of the credentials committee in addressing unprofessional conduct?
- Radiologist indicted for fraudulently signing reports
- New report reveals $47 billion in Medicare fraud
- 2010 ICD-9 code updates now available online
- National Quality Forum creates standardized set of data for electronic health records
- Master modifiers to ensure accurate reimbursement
- H1N1 hits Maine facility
- Don’t be scared into silence: Affiliation letter safeguards allow you to disclose more
- Understand the H1N1 Flu and how to code it
- E-mailed
-
- Credentialing monthly: What is the role of the credentials committee in addressing unprofessional conduct?
- Radiologist indicted for fraudulently signing reports
- Q/A: Billing telemetry daily monitoring
- National Quality Forum creates standardized set of data for electronic health records
- New report reveals $47 billion in Medicare fraud
- Q/A: Billing for DME
- Revised MS.1.20 'huge improvement', out for comment again
- H1N1 hits Maine facility
- Hospice group to pay U.S. $1.83 million in False Claims Act suit
- Providers report first RAC denials in Florida, South Carolina
- Searched
