The protection against infectious diseases that vaccines provide can wear off over time. For best protection, encourage patients to get or renew vaccines during the fall season.

Soap and water work to remove all types of germs from hands, while alcohol-based hand sanitizer acts by killing certain germs on the skin. Use this flyer in nursing homes to educate how to properly use hand sanitizer to kill germs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers four short videos for The 4 E's of an Effective Hand Hygiene Program. The video series is appropriate for multiple audiences for training or education in health care settings.

Download this one-page handout the TMF Quality Innovation Network to find evidence-based initiatives developed to improve sepsis outcomes.

This study found that surgical patients who are transferred to a regional multi-hospital system have a higher risk for hospital-aquired infections.

Watch this short, recorded webinar to get the most recent information about the COVID-19 vaccine.

The TMF Quality Innovation Network developed this document to assist health care professionals to increase patient safety by reducing C. diff rates and improving antibiotic stewardship in health care facilities serving high-risk fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries.

Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website to find information on ways to prevent sepsis and how to respond if they do get sepsis.

Sepsis Alliance has a library of sepsis information guides that cover dozens of sepsis-related topics. Download the guides, which are available in a high-resolution format, to print and distribute to patients, families, co-workers, friends, and other professionals.

Infection prevention is the only way to prevent sepsis. Fortunately, we can significantly reduce the risk of infection by using prevention measures such as regular hand washing and isolating ourselves if we are ill. Getting vaccines that target certain illnesses is another important way to reduce the risk of contracting infections.

Health care providers can download this colorful flyer to remind patients and family members to get their updated COVID-19 vaccine.

This article suggests that the next viral threat to the United States could result in more illness than was seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch or listen to this webinar recording to get ideas on how health care providers can encourage their patients to get the flu vaccine. TMF Quality Innovation Network quality improvement specialists share strategies other providers have used to address vaccine hesitancy and boost vaccine rates.

In this recorded presentation from the TMF Quality Innovation Network, health care providers get strategies they can use to promote and administer COVID-19 vaccinations within their communities.

Download this two-page handout the TMF Quality Innovation Network developed to help health care providers increase COVID-19 immunization rates in their communities.

Patients can use this resource to help determine when to call the doctor (the Yellow Zone) and when to seek emergency help (the Red Zone).

In this recorded presentation, from the TMF Quality Innovation Network, health care providers get strategies they can use to promote and administer influenza vaccinations within their communities.

In this recorded presentation, quality improvement specialists from the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization identify individuals who are most at risk for developing pneumococcal disease. This presentation also offers strategies health care providers can use to promote and administer vaccinations within their communities.

Use this tool to identify process gaps and improvement opportunities related to influenza, pneumonia and COVID-19 vaccines.

Download this two-page list of resources that you, your staff and other stakeholders can review to learn more about influenza. Providers can share these resources with Medicare beneficiaries to encourage them to get their annual flu shot.

Providers can share this fact sheet with their patients to encourage them to get vaccinated for pneumococcal disease.

Several malaria cases have been recently detected in Texas and Florida, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Rebecca Fischer, an infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health discussed what steps pubic health officials have taken to respond to this outbreak.

This flyer discusses mosquito-borne diseases and shares tips on how people can protect themselves from mosquito bites.

The new COVID-19 dashboard from the CDC allows users to research the attitudes and behaviors associated with COVID-19 vaccine, including demographic characteristics, behavioral and social drivers of vaccination, and barriers to vaccination. The dashboard provides data on adults at the national and state level and children at the national level.

In this blog post, Dr. Robert Califf, commissioner of Food and Drugs, writes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration works hard to ensure that the American food supply is safe. The agency has been using advanced technology to cut back on foodborne illness cases.

If you are 65 and older catching COVID-19 for the first time, or are experiencing a repeat infection, the message from infectious disease experts and geriatricians is clear: Seek treatment with antiviral therapy, preferably Paxlovid.

On January 1, 2023, the Inflation Reduction Act eliminated out-of-pocket costs for Medicare Part D beneficiaries who get vaccines recommended for adults by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). People with Medicare’s prescription drug coverage will pay no deductible and will not be responsible for any cost-sharing for ACIP-recommended vaccines, including shingles vaccine, Tdap and travel vaccines.

COVID-19 is challenging to explain, live through and communicate about. The materials on this webpage were created to help make communicating about COVID-19 a little easier. Choose from videos, posters, social stories and interactive activities to best meet your communication needs.

This is a tip sheet for providers on new CDC adult vaccine recommendations for Hepatitis B, Zoster (shingles), Pneumococcal, preferred flu vaccines for adults 65 and older, along with tools to help adults catch up on needed vaccinations.

You Call the Shots is an interactive, web-based immunization training course. It consists of a series of modules that discuss vaccine-preventable diseases and explain the latest recommendations for vaccine use. This 15th module in the series discusses pneumococcal disease and its related vaccine.

This flyer discusses mosquito-borne diseases and shares tips on how people can protect themselves from mosquito bites.