Join our hosts Jessie Swain and Nicki Shorr as they talk with Dr. Janet Glowicz is a senior Infection Preventionist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion on pragmatic suggestions to improve safe handling of laundered healthcare textiles. This practice forum is based on multiple outbreak reports over the last decade and observations of practices CDC has made during responses.

Guest: Janet Glowicz, PhD RN

Article Title: Keeping Healthcare Linens Clean: Underrecognized Hazards and Critical Control Points to Avoid Contamination of Laundered Healthcare Textiles

Authors:

Janet Glowicz, PhD RN
Isaac Benowitz, MD
Matthew J. Arduino, MS, DrPH
Ruoran Li, ScD
Karen Wu, DVM, MSPH
Alexander Jordan, MPH
Mitsuru Toda, PhD
Kelley Garner, MPH
Jeremy A. W. Gold, MD, MS

Janet Glowicz, PhD RN

Dr. Janet Glowicz is a senior Infection Preventionist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. She holds a Master’s in Public Health/Epidemiology from the Health Science Center at University of North Texas and a PhD in nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington. Janet has practiced infection prevention both as a nurse epidemiologist in public health, acute and outpatient settings.  She currently assists with outbreak investigations in healthcare settings and serves as the subject matter expert for hand hygiene in healthcare settings. Dr. Glowicz is the Immediate Past President of the Certification Board in Infection Control and Epidemiology.