[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 31, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 4820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2001]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee 
(HICPAC)

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announce the following meeting for the aforementioned 
committee:

    Times and Dates: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., February 16, 2012, 9 a.m.-12 
p.m., February 17, 2012.
    Place: CDC, Global Communications Center, Building 19, 
Auditorium B3, 1600 Clifton Road NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
Please register for the meeting at www.cdc.gov/hicpac.
    Purpose: The Committee is charged with providing advice and 
guidance to the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health and 
Human Services, the Director, CDC, the Director, National Center for 
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), and the 
Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion regarding (1) the 
practice of healthcare infection control; (2) strategies for 
surveillance, prevention, and control of infections (e.g., 
nosocomial infections), antimicrobial resistance, and related events 
in settings where healthcare is provided; and (3) periodic updating 
of guidelines and other policy statements regarding prevention of 
healthcare-associated infections and healthcare-related conditions.
    Matters To Be Discussed: The agenda will include updates on 
CDC's activities for Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI), CDC's 
dialysis HAI activities, and CDC's long-term care HAI activities, 
draft guideline for prevention of infections among patients in 
neonatal intensive care units (NICU), draft guideline for infection 
control in healthcare personnel, draft guideline for the prevention 
of surgical site infections, update from the HICPAC surveillance 
working group, and updates on HAI surveillance definitions.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Erin Stone, M.S., HICPAC, 
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCEZID, CDC, l600 Clifton 
Road NE., Mailstop A-07, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone: (404) 
639-8692, Email: [email protected].
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining 
to announcements of meetings and other committee management 
activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: January 25, 2012.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-2001 Filed 1-30-12; 8:45 am]
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