Guidance Documents for Long-term Care and Retirement Homes
The best practice documents below are intended for use by healthcare professionals in long-term care homes and retirement homes. The recommendations in these best practice documents are developed through reviews of literature and consultations with experts in infectious disease, surveillance, communicable disease, and immunization. Can't find a certain resource? Try the General Resources webpage or email us.
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Infection Prevention and Control for Long-Term Care Homes - Summary of Key Principles and Best Practices
This document compiles core recommendations for infection prevention and control (IPAC) best practices developed by the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee for Infection Prevention and Control (PIDAC-IPC) that are relevant for long-term care homes (LTCHs) in Ontario in providing routine care. Although the target audience of this document is long-term care homes, many of the IPAC principles may be adaptable to other congregate care settings such as retirement homes.
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Best Practices for Infection Prevention and Control Programs in Ontario: In All Health Care Settings
This resource provides a broad overview of the requirements and recommendations for infection prevention and control programs in all healthcare settings. This document includes topics such as healthcare-associated infections, the structure of an IPAC program, the functions of an IPAC program, and additional resources for IPAC program guidance.
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Routine Practices and Additional Precautions for Infection Prevention and Control
Public Health Ontario's webpage for IPAC Routine Practices and Additional Precautions offers extensive resources for routine practice and additional precautions. Routine practices refer to minimum practices that should be used with all clients, patients or residents. Additional precautions refer to specific actions that should be taken with individuals that are at risk of transmitting or acquiring disease.
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COVID-19 guidance document for long-term care homes in Ontario
The MOLTC page for COVID-19 guidance provides recommendations for a variety of topics for Long-Term Care Homes.
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Health Care Huddles: IPAC Checkpoints
This resource is designed for infection prevention and control leads at long-term care homes and other congregate settings, such as retirement homes, to assist them with providing reminders of key IPAC information at shift-change meetings or huddles, especially for new employees.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Tips : Long-Term Care
The CCOHS Long-Term Care Home webpage for COVID-19 provides useful tips on topics like facility management, early recognition, suspected cases, personal protective equipment, and environmental cleaning.
Control of Respiratory Infection Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Homes, 2018
The purpose of this guide is to assist LTCHs and public health units (PHUs) with the prevention, detection, and management of respiratory infection outbreaks that arise from the transmission of common viral pathogens, through droplet exposure
Prevention and Management of COVID-19 in Long-term Care and Retirement Homes
Preventing the spread of COVID-19 in long-term care homes (LTCHs) and retirement homes (RHs) is critical for the health of residents, health care workers and other staff. Given the volume of guidance, infection prevention and control (IPAC) resources and direction that homes have received, this document has been developed to provide a compilation of important resources and information. This document includes prevention of COVID-19 entering the home, identification of infection, prevention of COVID-19 spread within the home, and de-escalation of outbreak strategies.
Recommendations for the Control of Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Homes
The purpose of the document is to assist LTCHs before, during, and after a gastroenteritis outbreak and to minimize illness, hospitalization, and death, related to gastroenteritis outbreaks in LTCHs.
Guidance: Infection Prevention and Control Measures for Healthcare Workers in Acute Care and Long-term Care Settings
This document provides infection prevention and control guidance to healthcare workers in the management of patients with suspected or confirmed seasonal influenza, including 2009 H1N1 flu virus in the acute care and long-term care (LTC) settings. This document does not provide recommendations for novel influenza strains that may emerge in the future.