The Orange County Healthcare Agency continues to monitor C. auris activity in all high-risk facilities in the county. Point prevalence surveys (PPSs) continue to be routinely performed at intervals at all long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) and skilled nursing facilities that provide ventilator care (vSNFs) in Orange County, as well as any other facility where transmission has been detected.
Clinical laboratories who serve acute care hospitals, LTACHS, and vSNFs in the county should also be performing surveillance for C. auris by speciating selected organisms when Candida is isolated in cultures taken from sterile and non-sterile body sites. This speciation surveillance is extremely important to controlling the spread of C. auris in the county and has aided in the identification of multiple cases not found by traditional PPS surveillance since the organism’s introduction into the county.