Contracted Infection Prevention Staffing and Program Management
Our team recognizes facilities desire effective infection prevention and control programs such that they complete successful accreditation and licensure surveys and pro-actively reduce patients’ risk of infection. To meet these needs, IP&MA offers several options:
Contract Infection Preventionist Staffing
Recruiting for an infection preventionist is slow, and keeping one is its own problem. Postings sit open for months. A new hire often needs a long runway before they're independently confident in surveillance definitions and NHSN reporting, and when they move on, the search starts again with the program's institutional memory walking out the door.
The work doesn't pause for any of that. Surveillance continues, submission deadlines hold, and the survey window arrives whether the role is staffed or not.
IP&MA takes the role on as a contractor. Your facility gets a certified infection preventionist doing the actual job — not a placement agency handing you a candidate and stepping away, and not a headcount you have to recruit for, onboard, and eventually replace. Behind that person is a team of colleagues working across facilities nationwide, so the pattern recognition your program benefits from is broader than any single IP could build alone.
Ongoing Contracted Infection Preventionist Coverage
We fill the infection preventionist role long term: surveillance and NHSN reporting, committee participation, rounding and process observation, policy review, education, and survey readiness. Coverage is continuous, and when your assigned IP is out, the work is still covered.
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Program Administration
Accreditation, licensing and regulatory compliance assistance; Standardized surveillance activities and reporting through NHSN database; Evaluation of the environment of care and patient care provider practices; Policy review and revision
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Clinical Issue Management
Infection cluster of outbreak control; Disinfection problem solving; Consultation on exposure management situations
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Education
Required annual education; New employee orientation; Others as necessitated by clinical issues; Patient and visitor education as needed
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Cost Effectiveness
Improve utilization of resources as related to infection control issues; Decrease healthcare associated infections; Control antibiotic use
Remote / Hybrid Program Support
Intermittent onsite visits combined with remote work by a certified infection preventionist, scoped to your facility's needs and volume.
Interim Infection Preventionist Coverage
We accept a limited number of short-term interim engagements each year, often as a bridge for facilities evaluating a longer-term contracted arrangement. Availability varies — reach out and we'll tell you honestly what we can commit to.
Whether you need someone next month or you're rethinking how the role gets staffed long term, we can talk through what fits.