Free Respiratory Fit Kits for Nursing Facilities, Assisted Living Facilities, and other Long-Term Care Facilities (SNF/AL)

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) will be providing free qualitative fit testing apparatus kits and Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) trainings to ensure respiratory protection standards are met throughout the state. These fit testing kits are for use with respirators and include a hood, collar, 2 nebulizers, bitter tasting sensitivity solution, bitter tasting fit test solution, and laminated user instructions.  

To request these free respirator fit kits for your facility, we ask that the facility’s Infection Preventionist (or other designated facility employee) complete this order form. The individual completing this form (or their designee) will serve as the contact for the respirator test kit training that will be scheduled at a later date. That training, arranged through the MIOSHA, will be a train-the-trainer opportunity for 2-3 employees (i.e., the program administrator for the respiratory program and their back-up).

Completing the order form is the first in a two-step process: (1) Once you complete and submit the form, kits will be shipped to the contact you identified at the shipping address you provided. (2) The information you submitted in the form will then be forwarded, by MDHHS, to MIOSHA to formally request, on behalf of your facility, respiratory training. You will then be contacted by a MIOSHA representative to coordinate a training date.