Common use of Infectious Diseases Clause in Contracts

Infectious Diseases. During an infectious disease outbreak, HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and HCC members all have roles in planning for and responding to outbreaks that stress either the capacity or the capability of the public health or health care delivery systems. ASPR and CDC require that awardees and HCCs coordinate the following activities to ensure the ability to surge to meet the demands during a highly infectious disease response.  Establish a common operating picture that facilitates coordinated infectious disease information sharing among all HCC members and relevant stakeholders, including state, local, and territorial public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, state public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and health care-associated infections (HAI) programs. o PHEP awardees should ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, partners responsible for airports and international points of entry into the United States, including CDC quarantine stations of jurisdiction, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners. Planning should include identification and management of potentially infected interstate and international travelers and acquisition and deployment of immunizations and prophylactic medication as appropriate.  Develop or update plans to describe how jurisdictional public health departments will: o Monitor known cases or exposed persons including how surveillance will be shared, o Conduct short- and long-term follow-up of known or suspected households, and o Ensure the security of storage and retrieval of sensitive information.  Establish key indicators, critical information requirements, and EEI that will assist with timing of notifications, alerting, and coordinating responses to emerging or re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks of significant public health and health care importance, including novel or high- consequence pathogens.‌  Provide real-time information through coordinated information sharing systems (see Capability 2, Objective 3, Activity 4 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and Capability 6: Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning) and ensure that information is directed to the public and to the many disciplines that comprise the responder community.‌‌‌‌‌‌  Coordinate public messaging and information sharing, including information related to monitoring and tracking of persons under investigation (PUIs), among PIOs for jurisdictional public health agencies, as well as PIOs at HCCs and health care organizations.  Ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, transportation, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners.  Continue planning with health care organizations and other stakeholders such as mortuary, autopsy personnel, and medical examiners, to coordinate the management of the deceased when bodies are considered infectious, including addressing the provision of body bags and other supplies, defining assistance, and developing relationships with crematoriums, funeral directors, and other partners to effectively plan for managing the deceased when bodies are considered infectious.  Identify, leverage, and share leading practices to optimize infectious disease preparedness and response activities. ASPR and CDC also recommend the following joint activities.  HCCs and state HAI multidisciplinary advisory groups or similar infection control groups within the state should partner to develop a statewide plan for improving infection control within health care organizations.  Jurisdictional public health infection control and prevention programs including HAI programs and HCC members should jointly develop infectious disease response plans for managing individual cases and larger emerging infectious disease outbreaks.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should collaborate on informatics initiatives to include but are not limited to electronic laboratory reporting, electronic test ordering, electronic case reporting, electronic death reporting, and syndromic surveillance.  HPP and PHEP awardees and HCCs should engage with the community to improve understanding of issues related to infection prevention measures, such as: o Changes in hospital visitation policies, o Social distancing, and o Infection control practices in hospitals, such as:  PPE use,  Hand hygiene,  Source control, and  Isolation of patients.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should promote coordinated training and maintenance of competencies among public health first responders, health care providers, EMS, and others as appropriate, on the use of PPE, environmental decontamination, and management of infectious waste. Training should follow OSHA and state regulations.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs and their members should collaborate to develop and implement strategies to ensure availability of effective supplies of PPE, including: o Working with suppliers and coalitions to develop plans for caching or redistribution and sharing and o Informing each other and integrating plans for purchasing, caching, and distributing PPE.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should sustain planning for the management of PUIs to:‌ o Monitor health care personnel who may have had a risk exposure to a PUI by directly treating or caring for a PUI in a health care setting and o Clarify roles and responsibilities for key response activities related to the monitoring of PUIs, to include:  Assisting or assessing readiness of health care organizations in the event of a PUI and  Conducting AARs and testing plans for PUI management to identify opportunities to improve local, state, and national response activities. More information about addressing specialty medical surge for infectious diseases can be found in Capability 4, Objective 9 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities.‌‌ PHEP Requirements/Recommendations

Infectious Diseases. a. During an infectious disease outbreak, HPP and PHEP awardeessub-recipients, HCCs, and HCC members all have roles in planning for and responding to outbreaks that stress either the capacity or the capability of the public health or health care delivery systems. ASPR and CDC require that awardees Sub-recipients and HCCs will coordinate the following activities to ensure the ability to surge to meet the demands during a highly infectious disease response.  • Establish a common operating picture that facilitates coordinated infectious disease information sharing among all HCC members and relevant stakeholders, including state, local, and territorial public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, state public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and health care-associated infections (HAI) programs. o PHEP awardees • Sub-recipients should ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, partners responsible for airports and international points of entry into the United States, including CDC quarantine stations of jurisdiction, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners. Planning should include identification and management of potentially infected interstate and international travelers and acquisition and deployment of immunizations and prophylactic medication as appropriate.  • Develop or update plans to describe how jurisdictional public health departments sub-recipients will: o Monitor known cases or exposed persons including how surveillance will be shared, o Conduct short- and long-term follow-up of known or suspected households, and o Ensure the security of storage and retrieval of sensitive information.  • Establish key indicators, critical information requirements, and EEI that will assist with timing of notifications, alerting, and coordinating responses to emerging or re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks of significant public health and health care importance, including novel or high- consequence pathogens.‌  pathogens. • Provide real-time information through coordinated information sharing systems (see Capability 2, Objective 3, Activity 4 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and Capability 6: Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning) and ensure that information is directed to the public and to the many disciplines that comprise the responder community.‌‌‌‌‌‌  community. • Coordinate public messaging and information sharing, including information related to monitoring and tracking of persons under investigation (PUIs), among PIOs for jurisdictional public health agenciessub-recipients, as well as PIOs at HCCs and health care organizations.  • Ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, transportation, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners.  • Continue planning with health care organizations and other stakeholders such as mortuary, autopsy personnel, and medical examiners, to coordinate the management of the deceased when bodies are considered infectious, including addressing the provision of body bags and other supplies, defining assistance, and developing relationships with crematoriums, funeral directors, and other partners to effectively plan for managing the deceased when bodies are considered infectious.  • Identify, leverage, and share leading practices to optimize infectious disease preparedness and response activities. ASPR and CDC ADHS also recommend recommends the following joint activities.  HCCs and state HAI multidisciplinary advisory groups or similar infection control groups within the state should partner to develop a statewide plan for improving infection control within health care organizations.  Jurisdictional public health infection control and prevention programs including HAI programs and HCC members should jointly develop infectious disease response plans for managing individual cases and larger emerging infectious disease outbreaks.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should collaborate on informatics initiatives to include but are not limited to electronic laboratory reporting, electronic test ordering, electronic case reporting, electronic death reporting, and syndromic surveillance.  HPP and PHEP awardees and HCCs should engage with the community to improve understanding of issues related to infection prevention measures, such as: o Changes in hospital visitation policies, o Social distancing, and o Infection control practices in hospitals, such as:  PPE use,  Hand hygiene,  Source control, and  Isolation of patients.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should promote coordinated training and maintenance of competencies among public health first responders, health care providers, EMS, and others as appropriate, on the use of PPE, environmental decontamination, and management of infectious waste. Training should follow OSHA and state regulations.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs and their members should collaborate to develop and implement strategies to ensure availability of effective supplies of PPE, including: o Working with suppliers and coalitions to develop plans for caching or redistribution and sharing and o Informing each other and integrating plans for purchasing, caching, and distributing PPE.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should sustain planning for the management of PUIs to:‌ o Monitor health care personnel who may have had a risk exposure to a PUI by directly treating or caring for a PUI in a health care setting and o Clarify roles and responsibilities for key response activities related to the monitoring of PUIs, to include:  Assisting or assessing readiness of health care organizations in the event of a PUI and  Conducting AARs and testing plans for PUI management to identify opportunities to improve local, state, and national response activities. More information about addressing specialty medical surge for infectious diseases can be found in Capability 4, Objective 9 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities.‌‌ PHEP Requirements/Recommendations.

Infectious Diseases. a. During an infectious disease outbreak, HPP and PHEP awardeessub-recipients, HCCs, and HCC members all have roles in planning for and responding to outbreaks that stress either the capacity or the capability of the public health or health care delivery systems. ASPR and CDC require that awardees Sub-recipients and HCCs will coordinate the following activities to ensure the ability to surge to meet the demands during a highly infectious disease response.  Establish a common operating picture that facilitates coordinated infectious disease information sharing among all HCC members and relevant stakeholders, including state, local, and territorial public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, state public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and health care-associated infections (HAI) programs. o PHEP awardees  Sub-recipients should ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, partners responsible for airports and international points of entry into the United States, including CDC quarantine stations of jurisdiction, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners. Planning should include identification and management of potentially infected interstate and international travelers and acquisition and deployment of immunizations and prophylactic medication as appropriate.  Develop or update plans to describe how jurisdictional public health departments sub-recipients will: o Monitor known cases or exposed persons including how surveillance will be shared, o Conduct short- and long-term follow-up of known or suspected households, and o Ensure the security of storage and retrieval of sensitive information.  Establish key indicators, critical information requirements, and EEI that will assist with timing of notifications, alerting, and coordinating responses to emerging or re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks of significant public health and health care importance, including novel or high- consequence pathogens.‌ pathogens.  Provide real-time information through coordinated information sharing systems (see Capability 2, Objective 3, Activity 4 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and Capability 6: Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning) and ensure that information is directed to the public and to the many disciplines that comprise the responder community.‌‌‌‌‌‌ community.  Coordinate public messaging and information sharing, including information related to monitoring and tracking of persons under investigation (PUIs), among PIOs for jurisdictional public health agenciessub-recipients, as well as PIOs at HCCs and health care organizations.  Ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, transportation, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners.  Continue planning with health care organizations and other stakeholders such as mortuary, autopsy personnel, and medical examiners, to coordinate the management of the deceased when bodies are considered infectious, including addressing the provision of body bags and other supplies, defining assistance, and developing relationships with crematoriums, funeral directors, and other partners to effectively plan for managing the deceased when bodies are considered infectious.  Identify, leverage, and share leading practices to optimize infectious disease preparedness and response activities. ASPR and CDC ADHS also recommend recommends the following joint activities.  HCCs and state HAI multidisciplinary advisory groups or similar infection control groups within the state should partner to develop a statewide plan for improving infection control within health care organizations.  Jurisdictional public health infection control and prevention programs including HAI programs and HCC members should jointly develop infectious disease response plans for managing individual cases and larger emerging infectious disease outbreaks.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should collaborate on informatics initiatives to include but are not limited to electronic laboratory reporting, electronic test ordering, electronic case reporting, electronic death reporting, and syndromic surveillance.  HPP and PHEP awardees and HCCs should engage with the community to improve understanding of issues related to infection prevention measures, such as: o Changes in hospital visitation policies, o Social distancing, and o Infection control practices in hospitals, such as:  PPE use,  Hand hygiene,  Source control, and  Isolation of patients.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should promote coordinated training and maintenance of competencies among public health first responders, health care providers, EMS, and others as appropriate, on the use of PPE, environmental decontamination, and management of infectious waste. Training should follow OSHA and state regulations.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs and their members should collaborate to develop and implement strategies to ensure availability of effective supplies of PPE, including: o Working with suppliers and coalitions to develop plans for caching or redistribution and sharing and o Informing each other and integrating plans for purchasing, caching, and distributing PPE.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should sustain planning for the management of PUIs to:‌ o Monitor health care personnel who may have had a risk exposure to a PUI by directly treating or caring for a PUI in a health care setting and o Clarify roles and responsibilities for key response activities related to the monitoring of PUIs, to include:  Assisting or assessing readiness of health care organizations in the event of a PUI and  Conducting AARs and testing plans for PUI management to identify opportunities to improve local, state, and national response activities. More information about addressing specialty medical surge for infectious diseases can be found in Capability 4, Objective 9 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities.‌‌ PHEP Requirements/Recommendations.

Infectious Diseases. During an infectious disease outbreak, HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and HCC members all have roles in rolesin planning for and responding to outbreaks that stress either the capacity or the capability of the public health or healthor health care delivery systems. ASPR and CDC require that awardees and HCCs coordinate the following activities followingactivities to ensure the ability to surge to meet the demands during a highly infectious disease response.  Establish a common operating picture that facilitates coordinated infectious disease information sharing among all HCC members and relevant stakeholders, including state, local, and territorial andterritorial public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, state public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and health care-associated infections (HAI) programs. o PHEP awardees should ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, partners responsible for airports and international points of entry into the United States, including CDC quarantine stations of jurisdiction, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners. Planning should include identification and management of potentially infected interstate and international travelers and acquisition and acquisitionand deployment of immunizations and prophylactic medication as appropriate.  Develop or update plans to describe how jurisdictional public health departments will: o Monitor known cases or exposed persons including how surveillance will be shared, o Conduct short- and long-term follow-up of known or suspected households, and o Ensure the security of storage and retrieval of sensitive information.  Establish key indicators, critical information requirements, and EEI that will assist with timing of notifications, alerting, and coordinating responses to emerging or re-emerging infectious disease infectiousdisease outbreaks of significant public health and health care importance, including novel or high- consequence pathogens.‌ pathogens.  Provide real-time information through coordinated information sharing systems (see Capability 2, Objective 3, Activity 4 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and Capability 6: Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning) and ensure that information is directed to the public and to the many disciplines that comprise the responder community.‌‌‌‌‌‌ community.  Coordinate public messaging and information sharing, including information related to monitoring and tracking of persons under investigation (PUIs), among PIOs for jurisdictional public health agencies, as well as PIOs at HCCs and health care organizations.  Ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency managementemergencymanagement, transportation, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners.  Continue planning with health care organizations and other stakeholders such as mortuary, autopsy personnel, and medical examiners, to coordinate the management of the deceased when bodies are considered infectious, including addressing the provision of body bags and other supplies, defining assistance, and developing relationships with crematoriums, funeral directors, and other partners to effectively plan for managing the deceased when bodies are considered infectious.  Identify, leverage, and share leading practices to optimize infectious disease preparedness and response activities. ASPR and CDC also recommend the following joint activities.  HCCs and state HAI multidisciplinary advisory groups or similar infection control groups within the state should partner to develop a statewide plan for improving infection control within health care organizations.  Jurisdictional public health infection control and prevention programs including HAI programs and HCC members should jointly develop infectious disease response plans for managing individual cases and larger emerging infectious disease outbreaks.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should collaborate on informatics initiatives to include but are not limited to electronic laboratory reporting, electronic test ordering, electronic case reporting, electronic death reporting, and syndromic surveillance.  HPP and PHEP awardees and HCCs should engage with the community to improve understanding of issues related to infection prevention measures, such as: o Changes in hospital visitation policies, o Social distancing, and o Infection control practices in hospitals, such as:  PPE use,  Hand hygiene,  Source control, and  Isolation of patients.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should promote coordinated training and maintenance of competencies among public health first responders, health care providers, EMS, and others as appropriate, on the use of PPE, environmental decontamination, and management of infectious waste. Training should follow OSHA and state regulations.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs and their members should collaborate to develop and implement strategies to ensure availability of effective supplies of PPE, including: o Working with suppliers and coalitions to develop plans for caching or redistribution and sharing and o Informing each other and integrating plans for purchasing, caching, and distributing PPE.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should sustain planning for the management of PUIs to:‌ to: o Monitor health care personnel who may have had a risk exposure to a PUI by directly treating or caring for a PUI in a health care setting and o Clarify roles and responsibilities for key response activities related to the monitoring of PUIs, to include:  Assisting or assessing readiness of health care organizations in the event of a PUI and  Conducting AARs and testing plans for PUI management to identify opportunities to improve local, state, and national response activities. More information about addressing specialty medical surge for infectious diseases can be found in foundin Capability 4, Objective 9 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities.‌‌ Capabilities. PHEP Requirements/Recommendations

Infectious Diseases. a. During an infectious disease outbreak, HPP and PHEP awardeesSub-recipients, HCCs, and HCC members all have roles in planning for and responding to outbreaks that stress either the capacity or the capability of the public health or health care delivery systems. ASPR and CDC require that awardees Sub-recipients and HCCs will coordinate the following activities to ensure the ability to surge to meet the demands during a highly infectious disease response.  Establish a common operating picture that facilitates coordinated infectious disease information sharing among all HCC members and relevant stakeholders, including state, local, and territorial public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, state public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and health care-associated infections (HAI) programs. o PHEP awardees  Sub-recipients should ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, partners responsible for airports and international points of entry into the United States, including CDC quarantine stations of jurisdiction, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners. Planning should include identification and management of potentially infected interstate and international travelers and acquisition and deployment of immunizations and prophylactic medication as appropriate.  Develop or update plans to describe how jurisdictional public health departments sub-recipients will: o Monitor known cases or exposed persons including how surveillance will be shared, o Conduct short- and long-term follow-up of known or suspected households, and o Ensure the security of storage and retrieval of sensitive information.  Establish key indicators, critical information requirements, and EEI that will assist with timing of notifications, alerting, and coordinating responses to emerging or re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks of significant public health and health care importance, including novel or high- consequence pathogens.‌ pathogens.  Provide real-time information through coordinated information sharing systems (see Capability 2, Objective 3, Activity 4 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and Capability 6: Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning) and ensure that information is directed to the public and to the many disciplines that comprise the responder community.‌‌‌‌‌‌ community.  Coordinate public messaging and information sharing, including information related to monitoring and tracking of persons under investigation (PUIs), among PIOs for jurisdictional public health agenciessub-recipients, as well as PIOs at HCCs and health care organizations.  Ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, transportation, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners.  Continue planning with health care organizations and other stakeholders such as mortuary, autopsy personnel, and medical examiners, to coordinate the management of the deceased when bodies are considered infectious, including addressing the provision of body bags and other supplies, defining assistance, and developing relationships with crematoriums, funeral directors, and other partners to effectively plan for managing the deceased when bodies are considered infectious.  Identify, leverage, and share leading practices to optimize infectious disease preparedness and response activities. ASPR and CDC ADHS also recommend recommends the following joint activities.  HCCs and state HAI multidisciplinary advisory groups or similar infection control groups within the state should partner to develop a statewide plan for improving infection control within health care organizations.  Jurisdictional public health infection control and prevention programs including HAI programs and HCC members should jointly develop infectious disease response plans for managing individual cases and larger emerging infectious disease outbreaks.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should collaborate on informatics initiatives to include but are not limited to electronic laboratory reporting, electronic test ordering, electronic case reporting, electronic death reporting, and syndromic surveillance.  HPP and PHEP awardees and HCCs should engage with the community to improve understanding of issues related to infection prevention measures, such as: o Changes in hospital visitation policies, o Social distancing, and o Infection control practices in hospitals, such as:  PPE use,  Hand hygiene,  Source control, and  Isolation of patients.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should promote coordinated training and maintenance of competencies among public health first responders, health care providers, EMS, and others as appropriate, on the use of PPE, environmental decontamination, and management of infectious waste. Training should follow OSHA and state regulations.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs and their members should collaborate to develop and implement strategies to ensure availability of effective supplies of PPE, including: o Working with suppliers and coalitions to develop plans for caching or redistribution and sharing and o Informing each other and integrating plans for purchasing, caching, and distributing PPE.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should sustain planning for the management of PUIs to:‌ o Monitor health care personnel who may have had a risk exposure to a PUI by directly treating or caring for a PUI in a health care setting and o Clarify roles and responsibilities for key response activities related to the monitoring of PUIs, to include:  Assisting or assessing readiness of health care organizations in the event of a PUI and  Conducting AARs and testing plans for PUI management to identify opportunities to improve local, state, and national response activities. More information about addressing specialty medical surge for infectious diseases can be found in Capability 4, Objective 9 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities.‌‌ PHEP Requirements/Recommendations.

Infectious Diseases. During an infectious disease outbreak, HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and HCC members all have roles in rolesin planning for and responding to outbreaks that stress either the capacity or the capability of the public health or healthor health care delivery systems. ASPR and CDC require that awardees and HCCs coordinate the following activities followingactivities to ensure the ability to surge to meet the demands during a highly infectious disease response.  • Establish a common operating picture that facilitates coordinated infectious disease information sharing among all HCC members and relevant stakeholders, including state, local, and territorial andterritorial public health agencies and their respective preparedness programs, state public health laboratories, communicable disease programs, and health care-associated infections (HAI) programs. o PHEP awardees should ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, partners responsible for airports and international points of entry into the United States, including CDC quarantine stations of jurisdiction, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners. Planning should include identification and management of potentially infected interstate and international travelers and acquisition and acquisitionand deployment of immunizations and prophylactic medication as appropriate.  • Develop or update plans to describe how jurisdictional public health departments will: o Monitor known cases or exposed persons including how surveillance will be shared, o Conduct short- and long-term follow-up of known or suspected households, and o Ensure the security of storage and retrieval of sensitive information.  • Establish key indicators, critical information requirements, and EEI that will assist with timing of notifications, alerting, and coordinating responses to emerging or re-emerging infectious disease infectiousdisease outbreaks of significant public health and health care importance, including novel or high- consequence pathogens.‌  Provide real-time information through coordinated information sharing systems (see Capability 2, Objective 3, Activity 4 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities and Capability 6: Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning) and ensure that information is directed to the public and to the many disciplines that comprise the responder community.‌‌‌‌‌‌  Coordinate public messaging and information sharing, including information related to monitoring and tracking of persons under investigation (PUIs), among PIOs for jurisdictional public health agencies, as well as PIOs at HCCs and health care organizations.  Ensure infectious disease response planning includes state and local emergency management, transportation, public safety, and other relevant agencies and community partners.  Continue planning with health care organizations and other stakeholders such as mortuary, autopsy personnel, and medical examiners, to coordinate the management of the deceased when bodies are considered infectious, including addressing the provision of body bags and other supplies, defining assistance, and developing relationships with crematoriums, funeral directors, and other partners to effectively plan for managing the deceased when bodies are considered infectious.  Identify, leverage, and share leading practices to optimize infectious disease preparedness and response activities. ASPR and CDC also recommend the following joint activities.  HCCs and state HAI multidisciplinary advisory groups or similar infection control groups within the state should partner to develop a statewide plan for improving infection control within health care organizations.  Jurisdictional public health infection control and prevention programs including HAI programs and HCC members should jointly develop infectious disease response plans for managing individual cases and larger emerging infectious disease outbreaks.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should collaborate on informatics initiatives to include but are not limited to electronic laboratory reporting, electronic test ordering, electronic case reporting, electronic death reporting, and syndromic surveillance.  HPP and PHEP awardees and HCCs should engage with the community to improve understanding of issues related to infection prevention measures, such as: o Changes in hospital visitation policies, o Social distancing, and o Infection control practices in hospitals, such as:  PPE use,  Hand hygiene,  Source control, and  Isolation of patients.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should promote coordinated training and maintenance of competencies among public health first responders, health care providers, EMS, and others as appropriate, on the use of PPE, environmental decontamination, and management of infectious waste. Training should follow OSHA and state regulations.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs and their members should collaborate to develop and implement strategies to ensure availability of effective supplies of PPE, including: o Working with suppliers and coalitions to develop plans for caching or redistribution and sharing and o Informing each other and integrating plans for purchasing, caching, and distributing PPE.  HPP and PHEP awardees, HCCs, and their members should sustain planning for the management of PUIs to:‌ o Monitor health care personnel who may have had a risk exposure to a PUI by directly treating or caring for a PUI in a health care setting and o Clarify roles and responsibilities for key response activities related to the monitoring of PUIs, to include:  Assisting or assessing readiness of health care organizations in the event of a PUI and  Conducting AARs and testing plans for PUI management to identify opportunities to improve local, state, and national response activities. More information about addressing specialty medical surge for infectious diseases can be found in Capability 4, Objective 9 of the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities.‌‌ PHEP Requirements/Recommendationspathogens.