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Your policy appears to be very vague or poorly thought out (a short cut?). You don't contact CDC to determine whether a resident is still infected or not. You do need to review the CDC guidelines before you write a policy.
Our policy (re: whether a resident is still infected or not) is to do a culture when a resident appears asymptomatic or after the course of treatment. Then repeated again after 24 hours (that is, 2 cultures at 24 hr. interval).
Here's a good link in developing a policy about MRSA in LTCFs (needs an Acrobat reader to open)....
http://www.shea-online.org/pdfs/AbxR-LTCF96.PDF
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Kimmyjc
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We have an MRSA policy instituted, however, I just noticed that it states to contact the CDC regarding when the resident is no longer infected. I haven't been able to find these criteria, I've been all over their guidelines. Do any of you have this in your policies? Thanks alot, Kim.