Infection Prevention in Ambulatory Care: Navigating a Patchwork of Practices
The non-acute healthcare environment continues to expand, with increasingly complex patients receiving care across outpatient clinics, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), and other settings. As care shifts beyond the hospital, infection prevention and control (IPC) programs are expected to operate across diverse environments with variable oversight, resources, and infrastructure.
These conditions can create significant challenges for infection prevention. This session will review trends shaping ambulatory care, examine current infection prevention expectations across settings, and outline practical, real-world approaches to help reduce transmission in the environments where care is increasingly delivered.
Tuesday, July 21 at 9 am PT
Learning Objectives
- Describe key trends driving the shift from acute care to ambulatory and outpatient settings, including increasing patient complexity
- Identify variability in infection prevention expectations, oversight, and resources across ambulatory care environments
- Apply practical, setting-specific strategies to help reduce transmission in outpatient and non-acute care settings