The future of infection prevention will include better surveillance, AI, automation, and environmental monitoring. The question isn’t whether IPC will use more technology, but whether it makes the next decision or workflow more reliable. #IIPW2026 #InfectionPrevention

Water management belongs to Facilities, until Legionella shows up in a culture. IPC opportunities often live between departments. This #IIPW2026, pick one cross-functional risk and trace the handoffs. Who sees it first? Who confirms it’s resolved? #InfectionPrevention

Everyone knows how to wash their hands until the UV light shows the spots they missed. For #IIPW2026, try @APIC’s “Did You Miss a Spot?” activity with your team. It turns technique into something people can see. #InfectionPrevention #HandHygiene hubs.ly/Q04BMjT70

The tools have changed, but one part of infection prevention hasn’t: noticing what others might miss. This #IIPW2026, we’re looking at the work behind prevention from the lessons that shaped IPC to what programs need next. #InfectionPrevention

Next week is #IIPW2026. @APIC’s theme, Generations of Infection Prevention, looks at the work that brought the field here: Past. Present. Protected. Follow along as we look at what it takes to keep prevention working day to day. #InfectionPrevention hubs.la/Q04BlgZl0

Respiratory season prep starts before flu season does. The IP teams doing this work in September are the ones not scrambling in November.

ASCs, clinics, LTC, and home-based care need the same core IPC practices but different training, workflow, and oversight. The question is whether each setting can actually apply and follow them. hubs.la/Q04sJnzz0

An IC program that looks fine on paper can still be carrying risk no one has written down yet. That's what Fractional Support is built to support. New from APIC Consulting "5 Infection Prevention Projects Teams Keep Delaying." #publichealth #patientsafety hubs.la/Q04tQLxT0

Respiratory season exposes gaps that were already there: pressure rooms that haven't been checked, construction workarounds, water issues nobody escalated. These rarely belong to one department. Worth checking now, before volume picks up. hubs.la/Q04sGSWh0

Hand hygiene adherence? 95.1% reported. 46.2% observed. We call that a gap. What might be driving the disconnect? Hear the researchers discuss the findings in a recent study published in @AJICJournal:   hubs.la/Q04t82gT0   #HandHygiene #PatientSafety

Scalable public health IPC support is still human work. A resource lands differently when someone helps a facility use it to respond to apply it to their IPC challenges and workflows. That's the line between sharing information and building capacity. hubs.la/Q04tV-2G0

Suspected outbreak calls usually arrive with partial information at a bad time. What you ask first matters: who's affected, when it started, where cases are located, and what's changed recently. That's what turns a vague concern into an actionable picture. hubs.ly/Q04szll80

Outdated IPC policies always surface at the worst time: survey week. See how one surgery network got aligned across every facility, with no major findings on the other side. hubs.la/Q04sTt4W0 #InfectionPrevention #IPC #PatientSafety

Survey preparation can look complete on paper while policy, practice, and documentation tell different stories. Our latest article covers the IPC gaps teams often miss, from staff readiness to surveillance follow up. hubs.la/Q04ss5F80 #SurveyReadiness #InfectionPrevention

A 14-day readiness reset won't fix everything. What it can do is make the work visible again: what needs attention now, what's quietly stalled, who owns follow-up, and how you'll track it before the next urgent thing takes over. apicconsulting.com/resource/…

Strong IPC teams at each hospital don’t always create systemwide visibility. When findings live in separate spreadsheets, emails, and dashboards, compliance risk gets harder to see, and act on.

A policy review keeps getting bumped. Survey readiness slips. A newer IP still needs coaching. Not every IPC gap requires another full-time hire. Our latest blog explains how focused outside expertise can move priorities forward. hubs.la/Q04srGJF0 #InfectionPrevention #IPC

Reporting problems rarely look urgent at first: a file that bounces, a vendor update running late. But each one chips away at how much leadership can actually trust the HAI and quality data they're looking at. Worth asking: would anyone catch it before it became a bigger problem?

Endoscope reprocessing gaps rarely start with someone skipping a step. They start with an IFU that's hard to reach, documentation that's thin, or a handoff nobody fully owns. Worth asking before the survey: is our process running on memory or a system? hubs.la/Q04qNj4F0

A policy can be accurate and still fail on the floor. The better question is whether the team can actually follow the policy under real conditions. Watch where staff get stuck. That's usually where the real answer is. hubs.la/Q04qMQ_M0