Dental offices and oral surgery centers are being closely scrutinized across Canada as standards have been brought to a new level. Dental infection control requires special skills to ensure that proper, compliant practices are implemented, maintained and enforced in both the operatory and central reprocessing areas.
Although most dental practices and oral surgery centers believe they are 100% compliant with their practices, Public Health authorities routinely note significant lapses when auditing facilities. When PHC visits dental practices, our vast experience allows us to uncover areas of practice in a manner similar to public health inspectors, but WE ARE ON YOUR TEAM. PHC successfully identifies patient safety risks, then provides mitigation strategies to quickly remedy the issues.
Practice Health Check conducts on-site visits to assess best practices and educated staff via a written report and/or in-service as well as develops comprehensive infection prevention and control manual. Annual third party audits are recommended by the IPAC Standards issues by the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Katz has worked with both RCDSO as well as the College of Dental Hygienists of Ontario. The IPAC standards for RCDSO and CDHO are available here.
Our team of PHC infection prevention and control consultants help clinics through onsite visits and assessments, education, remote training and ongoing guidance and recommendations to improve processes. PHC provides educational services to bring the staff up to speed and develops infection prevention and control programs in the form of a manual that is user-friendly and in compliance with public health and best practice guidelines. In addition, PHC consultants provide dental teams with remediation steps and corrective action plans when assessments result in deficiencies.
If you have concerns about your dental clinics’ ability to meet the ever-growing challenges of infection prevention and control compliance or feel that you could benefit from assistance and would like to learn how PHC can help, contact us for a complimentary initial consultation.
Is your facility experiencing a shortage of infection prevention professionals or is the department in need of additional certified infection control preventionists? PHC specializes in providing highly experienced, trained consultants to meet your needs.
Acute care and community hospitals, physician’s offices, independent health facilities and congregate care settings including shelters continue to be closely regulated and under increased scrutiny. Review of IPAC practices ensures the requirements to implement and practice infection prevention core requirements based on published guidelines and standards. Regulatory bodies mandate surveillance and reporting of various infections and practice audits requiring infection prevention professionals/leadership in these settings to have sound knowledge of these processes.
An infection prevention and control plan includes a written plan, risk assessment, goals and objectives, tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment, exposure control plans (bloodborne pathogens and TB), policies and protocols. Maintaining an infection-free environment in a healthcare setting is a growing challenge. Management of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycine resistant enterococci (VRE), carbapenemase resistant organisms (CPE/CPO), Group A Streptococcus (GAS), and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) must be a high priority for infection prevention and control departments. More recently, the challenges of reprocessing medical devices has come into the spotlight . Expertise and independent third-party audits are essential.
Healthcare Infection Prevention & Control Services
Practice Health Check specializes in infection prevention practices for a variety of settings including:
Our team of PHC infection prevention and control consultants help facilities through onsite visits and assessments, education, remote training and ongoing guidance and recommendations to improve processes. PHC provides educational services to bring the staff up to speed and develops infection prevention and control programs in the form of a manual that is user-friendly and in compliance with public health and best practice guidelines. In addition, PHC consultants provide facilities with remediation steps and corrective action plans when assessments result in deficiencies.
If you have concerns about your facilities ability to meet the ever-growing challenges of infection prevention and control compliance or feel that you could benefit from assistance and would like to learn how PHC can help, contact us for a complimentary initial consultation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught all levels of business that focus on health and safety policies is integral to staffing and business operations. Our expert consultants are available to assist non-healthcare businesses with navigating the health and safety as they work to reopen and establish new safety protocols.
PHC infection control consultants are currently supporting many non-healthcare industries, including education, law offices, media production, schools, and salon services, to name just a few. These companies Practice Health Check to benefit from the vast experience we have accrued over the course of the past four decades, which includes all aspects of infection prevention and control as well as pandemic preparedness, and management of emerging infectious diseases (SARS, MERS, H1N1, H5N1, avian influenza, Ebola, and COVID-19).
Assistance includes, but is not limited to the following:
To learn how PHC can help your business, please contact us to schedule your complimentary telephone consultation.