Alexander Minero

• Directed infection risk assessments and regional surveillance initiatives, identifying high-risk vulnerabilities and implementing targeted interventions, contributing to measurable reductions in healthcare-associated infection rates.
• Conducted 45+ proactive and reactive ICAR assessments and onsite education sessions in 2025, evaluating compliance, uncovering gaps, and providing actionable recommendations across diverse healthcare facilities.
• Reduced HAIs by implementing evidence-based interventions, including structured medical-device rounding for urinary catheters, central lines, and ventilators; guided facilities in improving hand hygiene compliance, environmental cleaning reliability, and transmission-based precaution adherence.
• Facilitated coordination between hospital leadership, clinical teams, public health officials, and community organizations, establishing multiple new regional partnerships to enhance infection prevention capacity.
• Led interdisciplinary policy review sessions, evaluating infection control measures and recommending improvements that were adopted regionwide to standardize protocols and improve compliance.
• Mentored newly hired infection preventionists and frontline staff across multiple facilities, strengthening IPC competencies, fostering clinical excellence, and building sustainable systemwide infection prevention capacity.

• Leveraged EMR systems, VEDSS, and Sara Alert to monitor healthcare-associated infections, extract patient data, and generate reports guiding facility-wide infection prevention strategies.
• Tracked infection trends and identified high-risk areas using Excel and Tableau, providing leadership with actionable insights for targeted interventions across clinical and support areas.
• Managed infection control audit data in REDCap and Excel, assisted the Infection Preventionist (IP) in finalizing ICAR reports, conducted site visits with the IP, identified compliance gaps, measured protocol adherence, and tracked corrective actions to improve patient safety.
• Coordinated communications with facilities and leadership on behalf of the IP, disseminated infection prevention updates via Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook, and maintained centralized documentation of policies, protocols, and training materials.

• Conducted COVID-19 case investigations and contact tracing, interviewing patients and contacts to collect demographic, exposure, and symptom information while maintaining confidentiality and cultural sensitivity.
• Provided education on isolation, quarantine, and disease prevention, monitoring compliance and referring cases or contacts to healthcare resources to reduce transmission risk.
• Entered and maintained case and contact data in statewide databases, ensuring accuracy and providing timely information to Epidemiologists and Health Educators to support outbreak response.
• Supported health district outbreak response and surge operations, coordinating with epidemiologists, leadership, and facilities both remotely and on-site to ensure timely public health interventions

• Interviewed COVID-19 cases and contacts to gather exposure, symptom, and demographic information, providing guidance on quarantine, isolation, and disease prevention.
• Collaborated with epidemiologists and health district teams, maintaining accurate case data in statewide databases to support outbreak response and timely public health interventions.

•Managed front desk operations, including patient check-in/check-out, scheduling appointments, verifying insurance, handling patient communications, maintaining electronic health records, and coordinating with clinical staff to ensure smooth clinic workflow.

•Provided direct patient care and clinical support, including taking vital signs, preparing patients for exams, administering medications or injections as directed, assisting providers with procedures, and maintaining accurate medical records.