Hygiene organization in nursing homes between actual and target

ABSTRACT

Hygiene organization is an essential part of infection prevention in nursing homes. The Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO) published recommendations on necessary structures as early as 2005 [i]. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have also drawn public, professional and political attention to hygiene in nursing homes. Standard operating procedures for hygiene are available in most nursing homes. The situation is different for the infection control practitioner, for whom there are currently no uniform specifications. The establishment of a hygiene com-mission can support infection prevention in the home;however, has so fat only rarely existed. The article gives an overview of the organizational structures of hygiene in nursing homes.