IPC for Home Health and Hospice Module 1: Contextual Overview of Infection Prevention in Home Health and Hospice

Course Overview 
The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s module, IPC for Home Health & Hospice Module 1: Contextual Overview of Infection Prevention in Home Health and Hospice, explores the evolution of home-based healthcare and the resulting implications for infection prevention and control. This course highlights demographic shifts, care fragmentation, limited environmental controls, and current surveillance gaps—while offering a forward-looking perspective on how IPC efforts must adapt in these settings.

Target Audience
Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are or will be directly involved in infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals who have participated in and gained considerable knowledge through specialized infection and control training and have minimal to moderate practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control concepts.

Overall Learning Objectives

• Discuss the shift from providing healthcare in the hospital environment to the home environment
• Contrast pros and cons and unique challenges of providing care in a home setting
• Explore the current state and future state of infection prevention and control in the home care setting

Continuing Education Credit
If you would like to take this full course for credit, please view the content on the VCU Health Continuing Education site. CE credit is available for this mini-course through August 7, 2026. To view the content without CE credit, watch here.

IPC for Home Health & Hospice Modules:

1. Contextual Overview of Infection Prevention in Home Health and Hospice
2. Best Practices & Infection Control
3. Cleaning & Disinfection
4. Waste Management
5. Occupational Health
6. Surveillance

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