Communicable Illnesses in Street and Shelter Locations
Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless (ACHCH) works closely with the County of Alameda Public Health Department's Division of Communicable Disease Control & Prevention (DCDCP) in an effort to prevent transmission of communicable diseases and respond to incidences of communicable diseases in shelters, homeless service centers, and in street/encampment settings in Alameda County.
ACHCH and DCDCP have jointly developed a toolkit to support homeless service providers in carrying out the fundamental strategies to prevent communicable diseases in shelters, streets and homeless services centers:
Select Communicable Diseases and Infection Control Practices in Congregate Settings
ACHCH and DCDCP have jointly developed a toolkit to support homeless service providers in carrying out the fundamental strategies to prevent communicable diseases in shelters, streets and homeless services centers:
- Create an internal process to identify outbreak or incidence of communicable disease.
- Educate staff and residents to recognize specific disease patterns.
- Document cases of similar etiology/symptoms with sufficient details to track source of disease outbreak.
- Rapidly implement measures to control spread of illness based on mode of transmission of suspected infectious disease including isolation, PPE use, hand hygiene, cleaning and disinfection.
- Notification to ACHCH and local health department of an outbreak to secure expertise and help in managing the outbreak.
Select Communicable Diseases and Infection Control Practices in Congregate Settings