---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 418.60"
title: "42"
number: "418.60"
heading: "Condition of participation: Infection control."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/418.60"
---

# §418.60. Condition of participation: Infection control.


The hospice must maintain and document an effective infection control program that protects patients, families, visitors, and hospice personnel by preventing and controlling infections and communicable diseases.

- (a) **Standard: Prevention.** The hospice must follow accepted standards of practice to prevent the transmission of infections and communicable diseases, including the use of standard precautions.
- (b) **Standard: Control.** The hospice must maintain a coordinated agency-wide program for the surveillance, identification, prevention, control, and investigation of infectious and communicable diseases that—
  - (1) Is an integral part of the hospice's quality assessment and performance improvement program; and
  - (2) **Includes the following—**
    - (i) A method of identifying infectious and communicable disease problems; and
    - (ii) A plan for implementing the appropriate actions that are expected to result in improvement and disease prevention.
- (c) **Standard: Education.** The hospice must provide infection control education to employees, contracted providers, patients, and family members and other caregivers.

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 32204, June 5, 2008, as amended at 86 FR 61616, Nov. 5, 2021; 88 FR 36510, June 5, 2023]

### Source

Source: 73 FR 32204, June 5, 2008, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302 and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 56026, Dec. 16, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 32204, June 5, 2008, as amended at 86 FR 61616, Nov. 5, 2021; 88 FR 36510, June 5, 2023]