Know the Details of Enhanced Barrier Precautions in a Skilled Nursing Facility to Maintain Compliance with F-880

Effective April 1, 2024, Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBPs) are a requirement in skilled nursing centers for residents with chronic wounds or indwelling medical devices during high-contact resident care activities regardless of their multidrug-resistant organism status. FHCA has partnered with A.C. Burke of RB Health Partners, Inc. to offer this on-demand program to help centers implement these precautions and help your teams be confident with this new practice. Participants will learn the details of EBPs to help make this process effective and how to evaluate your center's program.

After viewing this program, participants will learn how to:

Describe Enhanced Barrier Precautions, and when and how they should be applied
Discuss rationale to support implementation of Enhanced Barrier Precautions
Describe the plan, do, study, act (PDSA) process and how it can be used to implement a new practice in the nursing home

No CEUs are offered for this on-demand program.

COST: FREE to FHCA Members

A.C. Burke, MA, CIC

Vice President of Healthcare Quality

RB Health Partners, Inc.

A.C. Burke, MA, CIC, is the Vice President for Healthcare Quality for RB Health Partners, Inc. and is the primary author for the Nursing Home Infection Prevention Program (NIPP©), NIPPing Infections in the Bud. She holds a master’s degree in health management and is Board Certified in Infection Control (CIC) by the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology. Her 20 years of experience includes creating, implementing, and managing programs that have achieved national recognition, partnership building, meeting facilitation, consensus building, and developing competency- based training curricula for healthcare workers across the continuum of care. AC has worked in public health preparedness and response roles, served as the manager of the Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention Program for the Florida Department of Health as well as the Director of Infection Prevention for Mayo Clinic Florida.

CMS is issuing new guidance for State Survey Agencies and long term care (LTC) facilities on the use of enhanced barrier precautions (EBP) to align with nationally accepted standards. EBP recommendations now include use of EBP for residents with chronic wounds or indwelling medical devices during high-contact resident care activities regardless of their
multidrug-resistant organism status. The new guidance related to EBP is being incorporated into F880 Infection Prevention and Control. Access the March 20, 2024, CMS QSO-24-08-NH Memo.