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You are here > Home > Reading Lists & Books > Risk, Liability & Patient Safety > Health Care Mold Management Healthcare Mold Management: A
Prevention, Assessment, and Remediation Training Guide Softcover +
bonus CD-ROM
This package includes a customizable CD-ROM with forms, policies, and a training program. Healthcare Mold Management is more than just a book. Mold threatens patient safety; your facility could be at risk. Mold is a direct cause of dangerous healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that HAIs affect 2 million patients annually, with more than 90,000 fatalities per year as a result. When a construction crew rips out ceiling sections or tears down walls, such activities can unleash a variety of infectious materials, such as the molds Aspergillus and Stachybotrys. These infectious materials threaten patient safety and can cost you millions of dollars in lawsuits and removal processes. This book is a resource to help you manage these problems. With Healthcare Mold Management, you'll learn why mold is a concern for any healthcare facility. The only book dedicated to managing mold in healthcare facilities and offering policies and procedures for remediation, Healthcare Mold Management includes case studies and scenarios on topics such as mold exposure from construction and small maintenance projects. These are designed to give you a real-life perspective on dealing with mold in your facility. This book and CD-ROM provide the tools to identify:
Meet the challenges of educating your staff and contractors about mold. Educating staff and contractors is key for any mold risk reduction and prevention program to succeed. Healthcare Mold Management gives you the tools to educate workers with varying levels of understanding about mold, using teaching methods such as lecturing, use of humor, case studies, on-site demonstrations, video learning, and learning by performing tasks. This package includes a customizable CD-ROM with forms, policies, and a training program. Healthcare Mold Management is more than just a book. The accompanying CD-ROM contains forms and policies from the book including a chart on the quantity of fungi required to cause health problems and the various routes of exposure for fungi, a form for preventing mold before construction, and an inspection form to check for mold in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems. Many of these are customizable so you can tailor them to use at your facility right away. It also contains a PowerPoint presentation that'll help you train frontline staff on the key points for mold prevention, assessment, and remediation. Who should use this book and CD-ROM set?
This book and CD provides information about why mold is such a serious problem for all healthcare facilities and why it continues to be a problem. You will have materials for identification of the most common forms of mold, how they develop, and sources of mold, plus reference regarding:
This book describes how mold affects immunocompromised patients by reviewing:
This set provides you with guidelines regarding how to prevent mold during construction and in other situations, covering these issues:
You will have references regarding how mold fits into the infection control risk assessment (ICRA), including:
You will have resources for mold remediation with both short-term and long-term solutions. These materials show you how to conduct post-remediation assessment/evaluations and sampling/data interpretations with:
Mark Hodgson has more than 17 years of experience in water and air hygiene management. As Clayton Group Services' director of indoor air quality (IAQ), he provides technical and business development leadership to Clayton's IAQ practice. He has conducted risk assessments and prepared protocols for the control of Legionellosis, conducted water quality and water treatment assessments and audits, developed corporate policy and procedures documentation, created operator training programs, and taught management awareness seminars. Mr. Hodgson has also been a regulatory liaison and provided litigation support. He is familiar with current environmental, health and safety legislation, and particularly with Legionnaires' disease and associated problems. Carol L. Shenold, RN, CIC, has more than 40 years of experience working in healthcare, including acute care and long-term care facilities. She has worked in numerous hospital departments over the years. During her 12 years as an IC professional, she managed the areas of performance improvement, utilization management, risk management, and IC. During her tenure as quality review manager at Vencor Hospital in Oklahoma City, the facility scored 100 on its JCAHO survey. Ms. Shenold is the co-author of the 2003 HCPro book, Infection Control Trainer's Toolkit: Questions, Games, and Other Ideas for IC Awareness and JCAHO Compliance. Softcover +
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This package includes a customizable CD-ROM with forms, policies, and a training program. Healthcare Mold Management is more than just a book. With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety. (information from the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go Back to Pages / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore |
