Irena Kenneley, assistant professor of nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, conducted a survey that revealed deficiencies in home healthcare infection control. Of the 423 home healthcare providers who responded to Ms. Kenneley’s survey, nearly 60 percent said their healthcare agency did not have written policies for handling infection control when antibiotic-resistant infections in patients were known. In addition, 5.9 percent of respondents reported receiving treatment for a bacterial infection.
Ms. Kenneley identified a need for more explicit infection control guidelines for home healthcare and improved communication between providers about home healthcare patients’ infections.
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