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Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

David W. Bentley
David W. Bentley*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Units, Monroe Community Hospital and the Infectious Diseases Unit and Department of Medicine, University of Rochester- School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
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Infectious Diseases Unit, Monroe Community Hospital, 435 East Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14603
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This article is the first in a new series entitled “Topics in Long-Term Care.” The author, a full-time academic physician, is based at a chronic disease hospital with a 577-bed nursing home where he is head of infectious diseases and, with the support of a full-time infection control officer (RN), manages the infection control programs as the hospital epidemiologist and chair of the infection control committee. Although most interest centers on the nursing home setting, the title reflects the need to consider all long-term care facilities (LTCFs) with special populations and risk factors for acquiring infection, e.g., rehabilitation units, day care centers and day hospitals for the elderly and institutions for developmental disabled persons of all ages.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 10 , October 1989 , pp. 481 - 483
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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