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Alabama
- Academic – practice partnerships: Addressing diverse infection prevention and control needs across Alabama
- CDC gives nod to Alabama’s efforts: State’s COVID-19 messages now officially recognized
- ELC funds helped in strengthening Infectious Diseases and Outbreaks Division’s epidemiology workforce
- Mobile, Alabama Health Department moves from downloads and free software to near real-time access to data and apps
California
- Binational border infectious disease surveillance COVID-19 vaccination program
- California improves reporting on silicosis
- California electronic case reporting hold queue mitigates volume
- Successful production of epidemiologic summaries of 24 infectious diseases under surveillance in California from 2013-2019 for use by local health departments and the public
- Enhancing a “Mother-Baby” linked surveillance system for improved rapid response in California
- Mpox wastewater surveillance in California
- Partnering with an MPH student to document and describe a large multi-regional outbreak of a rare antimicrobial pathogen
- Pregnancy connects: Prenatal care for those at risk for syphilis in pregnancy
- Sexual health equity: Improving community understanding of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea using a health equity lens
- Wastewater office hours for wastewater-based epidemiology partners in California
- Candida auris control program
Illinois
- Illinois establishes automated alerts about travelers from Ebola-affected regions seeking health care
- Equitable Vaccine Administration (EVA): A vaccine equity dashboard addressing COVID-19 vaccine disparities across Illinois
- Illinois cross-team collaboration identified mpox cases coinfected with HIV
- Assessment of vaccine hesitancy among skilled nursing facility staff in Chicago
- Chicago Department of Public Health establishes a Regional Innovative Public Health Laboratory to provide SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing
- Chicago Department of Public Health establishes a wastewater surveillance program
Michigan
- COVID-19 and other disease case classification and closeouts
- COVID-19 response for Arab American communities in Wayne County, Michigan
- COVID-19 response in schools in Wayne County, Michigan
- ELC funds vital for cooperative tick surveillance and public health action in Michigan
- Michigan uses a fork in the road to address electronic laboratory reporting traffic jams
- Michigan uses report cards to enhance electronic laboratory reporting data completeness
- Michigan’s Infection Control – Educational Collaborative for Better Health Outcome (MI-ECHO)
- Mpox rapid response in Wayne County, Michigan
- Strengthening and preparing long term care facilities for disease prevention and control
- The story of collaboration – Reducing the burden of hepatitis C in Calhoun County, Michigan
Missouri
- Assessing healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance prevention and control capacity in Missouri
- COVID-19 wastewater surveillance in Missouri
- Missouri State Public Health Lab enhances next-gen sequencing capacities
- Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 in Missouri’s populations experiencing homelessness
- Modernizing data systems in Missouri
- Project Firstline in Missouri
- Raising COVID-19 awareness among travelers
- Sterile laboratory plastic recycling ecosystem
- Supporting local health departments in Missouri
- Tracking COVID-19 during pregnancy in Missouri
- Using Community Health Workers in the COVID-19 response
- Supporting confinement facilities to detect and mitigate COVID-19
- Enhancing school health capacity in Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
- Legionella sampling in single-family residences in New Jersey
- New Jersey establishes a Rapid Response Team to provide timely support for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related investigations
- Quality improvement related to infection prevention and control at New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park
- System integration of New Jersey immunization information and communicable disease surveillance systems
- The New Jersey Project Firstline team expands infection prevention and control training
- The New Jersey School HEPA Distribution Program
New York
- The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene developed methods to quickly identify when laboratories stop sending disease reports
- REDCap and R support the “Lab Bus”, a mobile community COVID-19 testing facility
- The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene solves foodborne illness outbreak detected using software that analyzes infections in space and time
- Visualizing insights in Orange County: Empowering public health change through modernized data dashboards and enhanced data availability
- New York City links COVID-19 epidemiologic data with whole genome sequencing data to track emerging variants and disease severity
- New York City automates integration of pharmacy and case data to address disparities in mpox treatment
- The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Detected and Investigated Cluster of Salmonellosis Using Wide Array of Tools
- The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Implements Citywide Immunization Registry and Surveillance System Integration
Ohio
- Combating superbugs is a team sport
- Expanded laboratory capability and staff surge improve timeliness of measles PCR testing
- Fighting the bite: protecting public health by investigating the increase of Lyme disease cases and the expanding range of blacklegged ticks in Ohio
- New initiative: Changing up testing strategies
- The past does not predict the future, but it can inform it
- There’s no I in team, but one person can make a difference
- Wastewater monitoring supplies data for preventative public health action
Oregon
- Oregon establishes an electronic laboratory reporting data quality assurance protocol
- Oregon builds a use case for informatics workforce
- Oregon implements and optimizes electronic case reporting
- Oregon improves pesticide exposure case ascertainment
- Oregon collects enhanced race, ethnicity, language, and disability data
- Oregon establishes data repositories for access and analytics
- Oregon evaluates payer information for child blood lead testing
- Oregon adds automation and vaccine forecast to disease surveillance systems to improve interoperabili
- Oregon creating central, standardized database of population estimates
Pennsylvania
- Addressing barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among staff in long-term care facilities in rural North Central Pennsylvania
- Admission screening among high-risk patients in acute care to prevent Candida auris transmission
- Communication and support: LTC-RISE team brings facility back from the brink of disaster through relationship building and training
- Continuity of services and organizational operations while prioritizing health, safety, and well-being in Berks County
- COVID-19 testing at K-12 schools across Pennsylvania
- Crisis response to COVID-19 pandemic, recovery efforts, and resiliency building for long term care facilities in Pennsylvania
- Developing and implementing a tick safety and Lyme awareness program for Pennsylvania schools
- Enhancing emergency preparedness in long-term care
- Establishing a statewide wastewater surveillance system in Pennsylvania
- Improving healthcare facility infection control plan submissions in Pennsylvania
- Initiative to educate staff on process required to perform point-of-care testing at long-term care facilities leads to sustained testing resiliency
- New initiative allows for critical access to pharmacy partnerships and vaccines across Pennsylvania
- Novel use of inpatient syndromic surveillance data to enhance case finding efforts for multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories mobilization of resources to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Pennsylvania LTC-RISE supports COVID-19 response and quality improvement at long-term care facility in Northeast Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Project Firstline developed a web-based interactive Certified in Infection Control study group
- Infection prevention escape room training and kits: An engaging, immersive learning experience for frontline healthcare workers
- SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring in K-12 schools
- Southwest RISE brings purpose, direction, and fun to local skilled nursing facilities
- Staffing in long-term care: A contingency staffing plan at the time of an ongoing pandemic for preparedness and continuity of care
- Standardizing sample preparation and clarification methods for wastewater surveillance monitoring of SARS-CoV-2
- Taking COVID-19 in pregnancy data to the community
- Thanksgiving dinner outbreak response results in improvements to local meal delivery service’s policy
- Tracking the “Tripledemic” in Pennsylvania with Syndromic Surveillance Data
- Training course for long-term care staff to advance knowledge and skills related to the care of persons living with dementia
- A more robust outreach and response to norovirus in Philadelphia
Rhode Island
- Crush COVID and Vaccinate the Ocean State mini-grants: Working to empower organizations to keep communities safe and well-informed
- Design and construction of a state-of-the-art facility for the Rhode Island State Health Laboratories
- Development and use of Salesforce for result look up and COVID-19 survey to complete own interview
- Development and use of Salesforce for auto-cluster detection
- Novel approaches to analytics using dashboards
- Development and use of spatiotemporal analytics to guide dynamic COVID-19 response activities
- Rhode Island utilizes novel approaches to analytics including automated data processing
- Development and use of Salesforce as a COVID-19 surveillance system
- Engaging and supporting congregate settings in Rhode Island to mitigate COVID-19
- Establishing a COVID-19 isolation facility with supportive services for Rhode Islanders experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity
- Genomic sequencing – equipment, personnel, and systems enhancements for variant tracking in Rhode Island and nationally
- Implementing and operating call center technology to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Rhode Island
- Initializing wastewater surveillance system to monitor COVID-19 levels in Rhode Island
- Monitoring travelers’ health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Rhode Island
South Carolina
- Assay development improvements at the South Carolina Public Health Laboratory
- South Carolina creates REDCap database for multidisciplinary HAI program functionality
- Wastewater testing and the pandemic response at the South Carolina Public Health Laboratory
- Seeing the forest past the trees: a holistic approach to utilizing whole-genome sequencing analyses for cluster detection and outbreak response
- South Carolina establishes a new community engagement coordinator position
Texas
- Adding capacity for Candida colonization testing at the Texas DSHS laboratory
- Binational communication
- Border health surveillance
- Expedited surveillance efforts to update distribution maps for Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes in Texas
- Electronic faxing (eFaxing) in Texas
- Increased mosquito surveillance testing in response to equine cases of eastern equine encephalitis virus in East Texas
- Insecticide resistance testing informs integrated mosquito management program decisions at the local level
- NEDSS Interoperability and Functional Improvements (NIFI) project
- Promoting Project Firstline in Texas
- Texas upload of closed cases
- Texas implements electronic case reporting (eCR)
- The travelers health initiative
- Cross-cutting emerging issues: COVID-19
- Using funding from Data Modernization and Enhancing Detection Expansion, the Texas DSHS built a bioinformatics team
- Automatic jurisdiction designation within Houston’s electronic disease surveillance system
- Dallas County’s award-winning approach modernizes public health disease surveillance to meet pandemic demands
- Texas State Health Analytics and Reporting Platform (SHARP)
- City of Houston averted norovirus outbreak caused by tainted oysters
- Zoonosis control field training courses
Washington
- Building relationships and sharing expertise between the Washington State Department of Health and K-12 school nurses
- Closing gaps between public health and correctional health in Washington State
- Expanding infection prevention consultative visits to dental facilities in Washington State through public health expertise
- How the Juvenile Rehabilitation agency set up COVID-19 testing at community facilities
- Inexpensive interventions to improve ventilation to resident rooms in long-term care facilities
- Coordinating COVID-19 outbreak prevention and response in K-12 schools with a setting specific epidemiologist in Washington State
- Washington Public Health Tackles Disease Surveillance, Intervention Issues Using New Technology and Partnerships
- The WA HEALTH team helped folks locate COVID-19 vaccines online through Vaccinate WA
- WA DOH Opioid Dashboard
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin builds cutting-edge molecular testing infrastructure to respond to infectious diseases
- Wisconsin builds bioinformatics team to enhance surveillance of infectious diseases using next-generation sequencing data
- Wisconsin HAI Program expands infection preventionist resources for health care facilities and public health departments
- Wisconsin implements influenza and respiratory syncytial virus surveillance and routine wastewater surveillance
- Condition feed splitter for eCR improves systems for eCR evaluation in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin built, utilized, and improved Self-Reporting application in response to disease outbreaks
- ECR improves case finding for occupational health conditions in Wisconsin