The Infection Prevention Coach Training Project provides managers and staff in selected hospital departments and units with the skills to facilitate communication, teamwork, and awareness on an array of issues relating to infection prevention, patient safety, and patient satisfaction. Participants learn coaching skills that enable them to promote improvements on a range of quality issues. The initial phase of this training focused on how to reduce hospital-acquired infections through hand hygiene, cleanliness, and immunizations. This is a distinct program that is focused on reducing hospital-acquired infections, and therefore, differs from GNYHA’s Quality Coach Fellowship (QCF) Program. In a larger context, the Infection Prevention Coach Training Project will complement two new GNYHA/1199SEIU initiatives: 1) educating 1199SEIU delegates about the developing Federal and State quality performance measures; and 2) creating a public awareness campaign on preventing infections across the metropolitan New York region. 

Hospitals that have participated in the Infection Control Campaign received:

• A training package on infection prevention protocols
• Checklists, peer-to-peer training videos, incentive packages, awareness posters, buttons, training materials, tool-kits, etc.
• Educational telephone conference call follow-up sessions
• $4,000 for staff replacement ("backfill")

Hospitals that have participated in the Infection Control Coach Training Project:

"GNYHA Completes the Infection Prevention Coach Training Program 62.0 KB" (Skyline News, December 24, 2007)