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Accreditation, supervision and counseling of the long-term care facilities address infection control, which underscores the importance of infection control in long-term care. This article demonstrates an experience in establishing an infection control surveillance process in a nursing home using Donabedian's structure-process-outcome model. 1. Structure: (1) Recruit certified infection control professionals to promote infection control operations. (2) Establish and execute operational manuals for infection control, pre-admission screening and admission assessment, as well as nosocomial infection surveillance and reporting system. (3) Provide sufficient sanitizing facilities to improve hand hygiene compliance. 2. Process: (1) Conduct infection control educational training programs, simulation exercises and drills for emerging infectious disease. (2) Inspect policy execution regularly. 3. Outcome: Formulate criteria for the structure and process for performance evaluation and improvement. Currently, infection control becomes more important in long-term care facilities. This article provided an experience of establishment of infection control surveillance process to promote the quality of infection control and performance in long-term care facilities.