The Safe Injection Practices Coalition’s One & Only Campaign:

The Health Department’s Role in Promoting Injection Safety

Rachel Kossover, MPH, RDHealth Scientist

CDC/NCEZID/DHQP

Council of State and Territorial EpidemiologistsJune 4, 2012

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the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Nothing to DiscloseNational Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion

Session Order Outbreak of pseudomonas in a

chemotherapy clinic, Mississippi Overview of similar outbreaks in oncology

settings and CDC model infection control plan

10th anniversary of Nebraska Hepatitis C outbreak which led to launching of Safe Injection Practices Coalition

Overview of SIPC’s One & Only Campaign and what state health departments can to do promote injection safety

One & Only Campaign Elements Training video for providers Posters and brochures Press releases Medscape CME activity Social media – YouTube and

Facebook Epocrates smartphone

activity Powerpoint presentation

with recorded audio

History of State Health Department Involvement

State partners funded by CDC cooperative agreement

2009: New York, Nevada

2010, 2011: New Jersey, New York, Nevada

2012: New Jersey, New York, North Carolina Recruitment of informal state partners with interest

State Health Department Successes New York

Received funding in 2009 Successes:

• Patient Conversation video, Injection Safety webcast, Key informant interview collaboration, CME course, engaged workgroup

Nevada Received funding 2009 – 2011 Successes:

• Passage of SB 419 – Injection Safety Attestation, partnership with state broadcasters association, movie theater ads

State Health Department Successes New Jersey

Received funding in 2010 Successes:

• Injection Safety Ambassadors, PSA, Community College Allied Health outreach

North Carolina Received funding in 2012 Successes:

• New hire for position, working group kick-off is later this month!

State Health Department Successes Colorado

After a 2011 incident, the state health department’s HAI program:

• Started a workgroup• Decided on targeted messaging• Reached out to One & Only Campaign for materials• Creating local partnerships

Montana An active State HAI Coordinator ordered enough copies

of the SIPC Training video to disseminate to directors of nursing in all hospitals across Montana

http://www.oneandonlycampaign.org/content/statelocal-health-department-toolkit

All Health Departments Can….. Feature a link to the One & Only Campaign

on your health department website.

Reach out to your state HAI Coordinator to determine areas of collaboration

Order free One & Only Campaign materials for dissemination in your state or locality

Conclusions State and local health department role have

key injection safety roles Investigation of outbreaks related to unsafe practice Primary prevention of unsafe practice

One & Only campaign resources are available to all state and local health departments

http://www.oneandonlycampaign.org/contact-us

Thank You

For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious DiseasesDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion