Project Firstline
An Infection Prevention and Control Training Collaborative
Project Firstline, CDC’s national training collaborative for infection prevention and control, is committed to preparing front-line health care workers and the public health workforce to protect themselves, their patients and their communities from infectious disease threats.
ASHE is pleased to contribute to this critical education and training opportunity and offer resources aimed at optimizing environments of care. Resources cover critical needs, such as ventilation and negative pressure rooms, to support to assist health care workers on both the environment side and clinical side; specifically clinicians, health care facilities managers and outside contractors and technicians.
The actions you take on how to construct and maintain a safe environment and keep key airflow components intact can make a difference in containing an outbreak and mitigating risks.
Facilities Managers
Resources on ventilation and negative pressure rooms for health care facilities managers.
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Technicians
Resources on ventilation and negative pressure rooms for outside contractors and technicians.
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Infection Control and Emergency Management Supplement
This guide provides links and references to informative resources and procedures and compliments the ASHE Emergency Management Playbook.
Explainer Videos
These videos have been carefully crafted as part of the Project Firstline Initiative, a nationwide effort to enhance infection prevention and control.
Ventilation e-Learning Course
AHA and ASHE offer a Ventilation e-Learning course to educate clinicians about proper ventilation to reduce the chances of contamination and infection in hospitals.
VIDEOS ON VENTILATION - Now Available in Spanish!
ASHE has developed videos for clinicians working in a health care setting covering important topics such as negative pressure rooms, AIIRs, room turnovers and air changes per hour, and many more! Browse all resources for clinicians and view the entire video series.
Featured Resources
ASHE Ventilation Guidance and Quick Guides - Now Available in Spanish!
Project Firstline offers two new guides on proper ventilation to contain and reduce airborne contamination. One guide is designed for health care facility managers and the other is for nurse managers and clinicians.
ASHE Ventilation Assesment Tool
AHA and ASHE offer a new Ventilation Assessment Tool to educate clinicians about proper ventilation to reduce the chances of contamination and infection in hospitals.
Watch Videos on Ventilation
ASHE has developed videos for clinicians and engineers working in a health care setting covering important topics on ventilation.
ASHE/AAP Podcast
Podcast: ASHE and AAP experts explain how to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by improving ventilation in clinical settings.
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AHA trainings, vlogs and other resources for front line health care workers and the public health workforce.
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Partners
Project Firstline is a collaborative between CDC and a diverse group of organizations
American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Health Research and Educational Trust, National Association of County and City Health Officials, National Council on Urban Indian Health, National Indian Health Board, National Network of Public Health Institutes
The Project Firstline program is a national training collaborative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an AHA 501(c)(3) nonprofit subsidiary.
Want to learn more about Project Firstline? Contact ProjectFirstline@aha.org.
Project Firstline is a national collaborative led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide infection control training and education to frontline health care workers and public health personnel. AHA is proud to partner with Project Firstline, as supported through Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-OT18-1802 & CDC-RFA-CK20-2003. CDC is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this webpage do not necessarily represent the policies of CDC or HHS, and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government.