SHEA Specific COVID-19 Response
Guidance and Tools --- Webinars and Podcasts --- Weekly Updates --- Policy --- Research --- Press --- Education --- MySHEA
Board Policy Statements
Guidance
- UPDATED: SHEA Statement for Healthcare Settings Preparing for COVID-19 Vaccinations
- COVID-19 Guidelines (IDSA-led; SHEA and PIDS representatives; SHEA GLC and Board review):
- Outbreak Response and Incident Management: SHEA Guidance and Resources for Healthcare Epidemiologists in United States Acute-Care Hospitals
- Incident Management Principles, Structures, HICS
- Stakeholders
- Communications
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Experimental Vaccines, Therapeutics, and Clinical Research
- Equipment and Supplies
- Resource-Limited Facilities
- Special Patient Populations
- Pediatric Considerations
(Commentaries by Pediatric Leadership Council and reviewed by SHEA and PIDS Boards)
Webinars and Podcasts
Podcasts
Available via LearningCE, iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify
What We Know Now Series
Allies in Infection Prevention Series
Webinars
- Board of Trustees Town Halls: recorded webinars and presentation slides
- Healthcare Facility Outbreak Preparedness
- Ongoing Preparedness
- Preparedness and Planning
- Public Health Perspective
- How to say it? Communicating to the press and public
Facebook Live
- Town Halls
- SHEA Board of Trustees, Jan. 31
Weekly Updates
Bi-weekly email with SHEA updates, federal agency news, guidance, and guidelines, education and events, trade press, journal articles, white papers, news highlights, and featured social media. Available by date and by month, February 10 to present.
Education
Prevention Course in HAI Knowledge and Control (Prevention CHKC)
For frontline personnel. 11 expert-authored, interactive, half-hour modules on hand hygiene, environmental control, device-associated infection prevention, pneumonia prevention, and more.
No cost with code COVID19
SHEA/CDC Outbreak Response Training Program (ORTP)
- Tool Kit
- COVID-19
- Implementing COVID-19 Prevention Practices
- Consulting during COVID-19
- Organizations and Agencies’ COVID-19 Guidelines
- Long-Term Care and Nursing Homes
- ORTP
- Incident Management
- Implementation, Communication, and Negotiation
- Horizontal Strategies
- Emerging Pathogens
- COVID-19
- Decision Simulations:
- HICS: How to Lead When a Crisis Occurs
- Defending Against Superbugs: An Interactive CRE Outbreak
- Audiocasts
- Recordings of the ORTP Regional Training Workshop
- HICS, Policy Development, Media Communication, Preparedness, Case Studies (Ebola, MERS-CoV, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, SARS)
- Effective Communication during a Crisis Webinars
No cost, publicly available
Policy
Statements
- Recommendations to Prepare for a Fall Surge of COVID-19 Cases IDSA, HIVMA, and SHEA
Advocacy
- SHEA-led campaign urging the Trump Administration to use the full authority the Defense Production Act (DPA) to create a sustainable and predictable domestic supply personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Signatory on letter by the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association to alleviate shortage of ventilators and PPE.
- Signatory on letter from the Coalition for Health Funding advocating for funding priorities for the fourth phase COVID-19 emergency response appropriations bill.
Collaboration
- Weekly meeting among CDC, and SHEA staff and Board members, APIC, CSTE, and public health stakeholders.
- Coordinator of ad hoc interest group representing organizations across the public health and medical supply chain sectors to share information on hospital procurement of PPE, testing supplies, and ventilators.
Research
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE)
ICHE COVID-19 articles, commentaries, and letters to the editor are freely available.
- Cambridge University Press waiving open access fees for COVID-19 related publications on request
- ICHE expediting COVID-19 related submissions
SHEA Research Network
"Policies and Practices of SHEA Research Network Hospitals during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
A ‘point-in-time’ snapshot of the urgent experiences hospitals and healthcare personnel faced in the fight against COVID-19. This study was conducted during April 2020 with 69 SRN healthcare facilities.
Michael S. Calderwood, Valerie M. Deloney, Deverick Anderson, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng, Shruti Gohil, Jennie H. Kwon, Lona Mody, Elizabeth Monsees, Valerie Vaughn, Timothy Wiemken, Matthew J. Ziegler, Eric Lofgren. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Web (June 23, 2020).
COVID-by-the-Week
Weekly survey of SHEA members from March 22 to June 6 on:
- Status of supplies and resiliency, evaluated on a scale from "sustainable for pandemic" to "crisis level (almost out/none)":
- Top 3 concerns
- Topics and concerns assessed: respirators, masks, gowns, gloves, face shields, ventilators, tests or testing components, isolation rooms, beds, new and/or diverging guidance or recommendations, non-COVID care, personnel training, symptoms that should prompt testing, reliability of test results, frontline workforce (FTE, part-time, resiliency), lab workforce (FTE, part-time, resiliency), time for training, lab workforce resiliency, medications, personal resiliency
Analysis and key findings (PDF)
Free-field comments are available to members-only via MySHEA.
Medical and Research Institutions
The COVID-19 resources pages of medical centers and research sites.
Press
Contact bcasteel@thereisgroup.com and tmoore@thereisgroup.com for press inquiries.
SHEA COVID-19 Press Room:
MySHEA
- Members-only; login required
- Shared resources
- Forum with ongoing COVID-19 discussions, including:
- Contact tracing
- AGPs
- N95 reprocessing
- Ambulatory care
- Dentistry
- Mental health for healthcare personnel