Infection Control and Risk Management Outsourcing

Healthcare facilities are inundated with alphabet soup of agencies that have rigorous, and sometimes contradictory, requirements and guidlines, including JCAHO, CDC, EPA, OSHA, AIA, APIC, and NFPA.

Risk Tech provides a variety of Risk Management outsourcing solutions that allow healthcare facilities to allocate their existing resources for optimum efficiency, and use an independent third party to help manage risk and meet standards compliance related to Infection Control Construction Risk.

We have the knowledge, expertise, and resources to manage Environmental Infection Control and related risks during healthcare renovation and construction activities. We can serve as the interface for ensuring that everyone works together to maximize patient safety, meet regulatory and JCAHO accreditation requirements, and complete your construction project on time and on budget.

Are you interested in Infection Control Training? Take a look at our Infection Control Considerations for Hospital Renovation course offering..

Professional Service Highlights

Infection Control Procedures Manual

Is your contractor confused about how to properly price the infection control measures for your project? The Infection Control Procedures Manual provides specific project details for accurate pricing of this piece of the project.

Project Specific measures for compliance based on PCRA, ICRA, ILSM policy and relevant guidance documents. Includes, but is not limited to:

• Step by step documention of project, including maintenance of pressure and particle count data, and quality control checks.
• Barrier location and design specifications for IC and ILSM compliance.
• Anteroom location and requirements (when necessary)
• Negative airflow requirements
• Appropriate adjustment of the ventilation system for adjacent areas
• Debris transfer and emergency routes.
• Monitoring equipment recommendations.

Infection Control Professional Support Services

• Pre-design infection control input to the architect and owner
• Collaborate with Infection Control, Facilities Planning and Development, and Construction contractors to ensure seamless integration of risk assessment plans
• Identify work area containment, and location and design of construction barriers
• Determine location of HEPA filtered air filtration equipment and ducts and negative pressure methods.
• Conduct pre-construction baseline air sampling
• Pre-construction training and certification of general contractor & sub-contractors
• Commissioning of construction containment before the start of work
• Deployment of real time particulate monitors and micromanometer monitors for highest risk areas
• Routine monitoring of pressure relationships, and containment integrity
• Post-occupancy environmental sampling for highest risk areas
• Evaluate protective rooms, including isolation rooms and operating rooms, to ensure that appropriate pressure relationships, air exchanges, and filtration efficiencies are maintained