Infection Control and Employee Health

Health Care Personnel TB Screening

• OHA webinar on implementing the 2019 health care personnel screening, testing, and treatment recommendations
  TB Screening, Testing and Treatment of Oregon Health Care Personnel Webinar (YouTube) July 2019
  
• NTCA/CDC recommendations on health care personnel screening, testing and treatment Tuberculosis Screening, Testing, and Treatment of U.S. Health Care Personnel: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC, 2019
• ACOEM/NTCA recommendations on health care personnel screening, testing and treatment Tuberculosis Screening, Testing, and Treatment of US Health Care Personnel: ACOEM and NTCA Joint Task Force on Implementation of the 2019 MMWR Recommendations
• Facilities Required to Test New Employees for Tuberculosis upon Hire (pdf) provides guidance on which agencies and facilities should have an employee TB testing program based upon Division 19 OAR 333-019-0041.
• Oregon Guidance on Healthcare Personnel TB Screening
• CDC Information on Baseline Tuberculosis Screening and Testing for Health Care Personnel
• Template: Annual TB Education for Health Care Personnel (editable ppt)

Annual Facility Risk Assessment

• Risk Assessment worksheet (fillable Word doc) Oregon-specific Tuberculosis Risk Assessment
  
• 2023 Community Profile (pdf) and CDC's national TB rates 2023.
  Contains information needed to conduct annual TB risk assessments for healthcare and long-term care facilities. This report is generated each March, after the year's case count has been finalized for CDC.
  

Airborne Infection Isolation

• Interim guidance on the use of nucleic acid amplification tests on making decisions related to airborne infection isolation
  

Infection Control in the Medical Office Setting

• Letter from OHA TB Program to Provider about Infection Control (PDF)