Model Child Care Health Policies

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
After School ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Child Care Facilities

Significantly revised and updated, the new Model Child Care Health Policies, 5th Edition is a must-have tool to foster adoption and implemenation of best practices for health and safety in group care settings for young children. These settings include early care and education as well as before and after school child care programs. These model policies are intended to ease the burden of writing site-specific health and safety policies from scratch. They cover a wide range of aspects of operation of early education and child care programs. Child care programs of any type can use Model Child Care Health Policies by selecting relevant issues for their operation and modifying the wording to make selected policies appropriate to the specific settings. These settings include early education and child care centers, small and large family child care homes, part day-programs for ill children, facilities that serve children with special needs, school-age child care facilities, and drop-in facilities. The model policies can be adapted for public, private, Head Start, and tuition-funded facilities. All of the most commonly covered health and safety topics the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies found in state regulations are included in this guide.

Use of a Statewide System to Improve Health and Safety in Child Care Facilities

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Amofah Dayie ◽  
S.S. Aronson ◽  
L. Jansen-McWilliams ◽  
K.J. Kelleher
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Child Care Facilities ◽  
Improve Health

Child Care Health Consultation Improves Health and Safety Policies and Practices

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 366-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbey Alkon ◽  
Jane Bernzweig ◽  
Kim To ◽  
Mimi Wolff ◽  
Joanna F. Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Health Consultation ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Child Care Health Consultation ◽  
Policies And Practices

The Application of Health and Safety Guidelines to Out-of-Home Child Care Programs

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 1016-1017
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Nursery School ◽  
Large Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Substitute Care ◽  
Family Day Care

In the United States, the structure, espoused purpose, and quality of child care vary widely. Community programs that provide out-of-home care for infants and preschool children have evolved either with no community regulation or with a variety of different institutional or governmental supports and regulations.1 In general, infant and preschool programs are designed either to provide substitute care when parents work and/or to promote socialization and early education. Frequently, these programs serve children only for a portion of the day and for part of the week and year. Programs that primarily provide substitute care are usually called "day care." Included in this grouping are "family day care" and "large family day care," programs in which children are cared for in someone's home, and "center day care," programs in which children receive care in settings specifically intended for that purpose. The labels traditionally applied to early education programs are "nursery school" or "preschool." These labels are not necessarily mutually exclusive. The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that education, in the broad sense, and the care of infant and preschool children are inseparable.1 In fact, the new terminology applied to these services for young children is "early childhood education/care programs." Young children are constantly learning while they play and while they engage in everyday activities.2,3 Also, young children in educational settings require "care" in the sense of needing to be comforted and to be instructed in the development of health behaviors such as hand washing and controlling their own excretions. In all settings, the safety of children should be assured.

scholarly journals Management changes resulting from hospital accreditation

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Lucas Campos de Oliveira ◽  
Carmen Silvia Gabriel ◽  
Hosanna Pattrig Fertonani ◽  
Laura Misue Matsuda
Keyword(s):  
Large Family ◽  
Hospital Management ◽  
Reference Framework ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Before And After ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
Management Changes ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Management Domains ◽  
Activity Areas

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze managers and professionals' perceptions on the changes in hospital management deriving from accreditation. Method: descriptive study with qualitative approach. The participants were five hospital quality managers and 91 other professionals from a wide range of professional categories, hierarchical levels and activity areas at four hospitals in the South of Brazil certified at different levels in the Brazilian accreditation system. They answered the question "Tell me about the management of this hospital before and after the Accreditation". The data were recorded, fully transcribed and transported to the software ATLAS.ti, version 7.1 for access and management. Then, thematic content analysis was applied within the reference framework of Avedis Donabedian's Evaluation in Health. Results: one large family was apprehended, called "Management Changes Resulting from the Accreditation: perspectives of managers and professionals" and five codes, related to the management changes in the operational, structural, financial and cost; top hospital management and quality management domains. Conclusion: the management changes in the hospital organizations resulting from the Accreditation were broad, multifaceted and in line with the improvements of the service quality.

scholarly journals Mean difference of coliform counts in relation to sanitation frequencies at the Simon Fraser University Childcare Society

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Chiu ◽  
BCIT School of Health Sciences, Environmental Health ◽  
Helen Heacock ◽  
Vanessa Karakilic
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Mean Difference ◽  
Surface Sampling ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Evidence Review ◽  
Child Care Facilities

  Background: Young children in child care facilities are more likely to contract communicable diseases than if they are cared for at home. The relationship between pathogen presence and frequency of toy sanitation at these facilities is not well studied. Thus, the discrepancies currently seen in the hygiene guidelines between health authorities in British Columbia, Canada. Most childcare facility studies in the current literature focus on gastrointestinal outbreak situations or the sanitation of multiple surfaces. The focus of this project is on toys only. Toys made out of wood were selected because research shows that this material is more susceptible to harboring bacteria on it. Microbiological swabbing was performed to measure the effectiveness of the sanitation schedule of a child care facility in Burnaby. Method: Twenty-four wooden blocks were randomly selected for surface sampling. The 3M™ Quick Swabs were used to collect the bacterial coliforms before and after sanitizing the blocks, whereas, the 3M™ Petrifilm™ E. coli/Coliform Count Plates were used to enumerate the bacteria. The last time the facility had cleaned the blocks was 1.5 weeks prior to sampling. Results: There were 0 CFU/cm2 for before and after sanitizing the blocks, therefore, the mean difference was also 0 CFU/cm2. Inferential statistics could not be conducted. Conclusion: The results can be interpreted several ways. One interpretation is that the current toy sanitation frequency at the facility is good. It could also mean that, the methodology used was not able to detect any coliforms. In combination with the conclusions from the different studies discussed in the evidence review, the development of a prescriptive toy sanitation schedule for child care facilities would not be a high priority for health authorities.  

Infectious Disease in Child Day Care: An Overview

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 987-990
Author(s):  
Michael T. Osterholm
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Health Science ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Child Day Care ◽  
Health Association ◽  
Care Health

In the early 1980s, the Minnesota Department of Health began to address the growing concern of the risk of infectious diseases in child day care by initiating a planning process that resulted in the first national symposium on infectious diseases in child day care. That symposium, which was held in June 1984 in Minneapolis, highlighted the fact that different vocabularies and points of reference would need to be bridged if day-care providers and regulators, clinicians, and public health practitioners are to work side-by-side in defining the risk of infectious diseases in day care and in developing appropriate prevention strategies.1 As a result of this meeting, the Minnesota Public Health Association submitted a resolution to the American Public Health Association (APHA) in the fall of 1984, stating that child-care standards, especially in the area of prevention of infectious diseases, were needed. This resolution, together with a simultaneous recommendation from the APHA's Maternal and Child Health Section for the development of health and safety standards for out-of-home child-care facilities, began a process which eventually led to the monumental effort now known as the American Public Health Association/American Academy of Pediatrics, National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs.2 In June, 1992, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored the "International Conference on Child Day Care Health: Science, Prevention and Practice," a historic meeting bringing together concerned individuals from many disciplines to further define and set the future agenda for the science, prevention and practice of child day-care health.

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