Project Firstline Rhode Island: Department of Health

Infectious Diseases

About

Clinical Specimen Submission
Prevention
Handwashing
Not Sharing Needles
Reporting
Respiratory Viruses

Information for

COVID-19 Home
COVID-19 Information for Healthcare Providers
Healthcare Providers
Residential & Acute Healthcare Factility Managers
Clinical Laboratories
Travelers
Schools

Provider Advisories & Newsletters

Rhode Island Data

Covid-19 Data
Enteric Diseases
Infectious Disease Data
Respiratory Virus Data

Programs

Acute Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Center for
COVID-19 Epidemiology, Center For
Emergency Preparedness and Infectious Disease, Division of
HIV, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases & Tuberculosis Epidemiology, Center for
Medical Examiners, Office of the State
Project Firstline Rhode Island
Sexually Transmitted Disease Program
State Laboratories, Division of
Tuberculosis Program

Services

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Field Team

Regulations

Publications

Partners

National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Program

Mission

To provide every person working in a Rhode Island healthcare facility with a foundational understanding of infection prevention and control (IPC) and the confidence to use it every day to protect themselves, their community, and the nation from infectious disease threats, such as COVID-19.

What we do

Develop a training collaborative on infection prevention and control in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Rhode Island community.

Provide healthcare workers and members of the public health workforce the infection control training they need to protect our community and the nation from infectious disease threats.

Contact

Project Firstline Rhode Island

Mission

What we do

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