The Infection Control Manual (in PDF format) for Ambulatory Care Clinics has been established to:

• Provide guidelines, procedures, and control plan for preventing the spread of infectious diseases
• Serve as resource document for local health departments, contractors and healthcare providers
• Promote safer work practices in caring for patients
• Indicate what safe work practices and safe devices are recommended
• How to manage a work-site exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material
• Serve as written documentation and reference for agency infection-control policies and guidelines
• Serve as a resource for accessing current state and federal laws and recommendations
• Provide educational resource guidelines for staff development
• Assist the Texas Department of State Health Services and public health agencies throughout Texas comply with federal laws, guidelines and policies