Subsection 2: Support centres for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections

In each region, a support centre for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections is responsible for implementing the health policy guidelines defined in article L. 1411-1 , with a view to preventing healthcare-associated infections: 1° Expertise and support for healthcare professionals, wherever and however they practise, in the prevention of healthcare-associated infections and resistance to anti-infectives; 2° Coordinating or leading networks of healthcare professionals involved in the prevention of healthcare-associated infections;…

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency shall designate a health establishment in which the support centre for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections is to be located, for a renewable period of five years, after obtaining the opinion of the Director General of the National Public Health Agency. The centre is located in a health establishment and may include several units housed in other health establishments in the region….

The centre’s operating procedures are the subject of an agreement between the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and the health establishment in which the centre is located and, where applicable, an agreement between the health establishment in which the centre is mainly located and the other establishments where the centre’s units are located. An annual work programme is drawn up jointly by the Director General of the Regional…