Virginia Department of Health (VDH) Clinical Community

10/22/2026

Infection Prevention Week Spotlight: Environment of Care

A safe care environment protects everyone – patients, families, and staff. The VDH Regional Infection Preventionist team offers free, proactive assessments to help healthcare facilities strengthen their infection prevention and environment of care practices.

Learn more and sign up to work with your Regional IP team to support your facility’s day‑to‑day readiness: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/haiar/ip/infection-control-assessment-and-response-icar/

10/21/2026

Infection Prevention Week Spotlight: Smarter Antibiotic Use in Virginia

The Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SASS) Program supports skilled nursing facilities with a free, ready-to-use antimicrobial stewardship toolkit and consultations to strengthen stewardship statewide.

➡️Using SASS resources helps facilities:
➡️Improve health outcomes for residents
➡️Prevent antimicrobial resistance
➡️Reduce healthcare costs through safer, better antibiotic use

Learn more at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/health/sass

10/20/2026

🎉On World Pharmacy Technician Day, we want to acknowledge the work of pharmacy techs at VDH and across Virginia.

From taking and processing orders, to filling medications and packing them up for distribution, these staff members keep our Central Pharmacy stocked and organized. Thank you for the essential work you do to support the health of Virginians!

10/20/2026

Infection Prevention Week Spotlight: Hand Hygiene

The Virginia Infection Prevention and Control Training Alliance (VIPTA) Resource Library makes it easy to find the hand hygiene tools you need. It highlights materials created by state partners and offers practical, engaging training resources.

The VIPTA Library helps you quickly sort through options so you can choose what fits your audience and training needs.

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/vipta/resource-library/

10/19/2026

Infection Prevention Week Spotlight: Tuberculosis & Infection Prevention Training Power Tools

Tuberculosis (TB) is still a risk. Can you crack the code?

Kick off Infection Prevention Week with the new TB Cryptogram from the VDH Infection Prevention Training Power Tools. Test your skills while uncovering an important reminder about recognizing and responding to TB in healthcare.

Explore all the Infection Prevention Training Power Tools at https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/haiar/ip-training-power-tools/

Learn more from the VDH Tuberculosis Program at https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/tuberculosis/

10/19/2026

It’s Infection Prevention Week (Oct 19–25)! Across Virginia, public health teams are working with hospitals, clinics, and long‑term care facilities to prevent infections and protect our communities. From clean hands and safe care environments to smart antibiotic use and strong data tools, we’re helping healthcare partners provide safer care every day.

VDH joins Governor Spanberger and APIC Virginia to promote awareness of Infection Prevention Week.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/proclamations/proclamation-list/infection-prevention-week.html

10/19/2026

that work here at VDH? We want to celebrate all of our VDH staff who are pharmacists and who work in the Division of Pharmacy Services for the work they do behind the scenes. 🎉

Our pharmacy team:
💊Dispenses prescriptions in support of VDH programs
💉Supplies vaccines and medications to our local health departments
📢Assists with emergency response and preparedness
🏫 Provides undesignated stock of albuterol and epinephrine to K-12 public schools
💡Provides naloxone and testing strips to community organizations to serve people at high risk of opioid overdose

10/16/2026

10/15/2026

Washing your hands is a little thing. But washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds can take care of the germs that make us sick.

Let’s all do the little things on . Share our video to help spread , not germs.

10/13/2026

Data alert!

Our 1-pager summarizing 2025 CY Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery data is out NOW on 211virginia.org/data.

View it here: https://211virginia.org/data/ or by visiting 211virginia.org -> Data -> 2026 Reports.