What’s New

• VCH job posting: Regional Epidemiologist, Quality Patient Safety and Infection Control (1 year position)
• Study finds influenza vaccine may be more effective in females than males
• B.C. health researchers advance HIV progress with new method addressing dormant strains. News  
• CDC launches The Junior Disease Detectives: Operation Outbreak Graphic Novel
• Fraser Health job postings for ICPs (search keyword: infection)
• More infection control news…

Latest Reports

• CDI Quarterly Update: Q4 of 2017-2018
• MRSA Quarterly Update: Q4 of 2017-2018
• CPO Quarterly Update: Q4 of 2017-2018
• Hand Cleaning Compliance: Q4 of 2017-2018
• Annual Surveillance Report for the fiscal year 2016-2017

Guidelines & Toolkits

• GI Outbreak Guidelines
• Carbapenemase Producing Organisms (CPO) Toolkit
• Antibiotic Resistant Organisms (ARO) Guidelines
• Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) Toolkit

Upcoming Webinars and Events

• IPAC-BC Education Day – Sept 28
• IPAC Canada Webinar: Balancing Skin Health and Hand Hygiene Compliance in Healthcare – Oct 4
• International Infection Prevention Week – Oct 14-20, 2018

Infection Control Resources

• Precaution Signs
• Infection Control Posters
• Fact Sheets and Brochures
• Infection Control Booklet for Residential Care
• Let’s Go Viral! workshop in-a-box

Webber Teleclasses

• Sep 20: The silent tsunami of azole-resistance in the opportunistic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
• Sep 27: Chlorhexidine use and bacterial resistance
• Oct 11: Infection control champions are made, not born