Annual Infection Control Conference - Mastering Powerful and Practical Infection Prevention Strategies

Solutions oriented strategies are required to drive and support Infection Prevention practices that are adaptable to any size organization and budget.  Preventing healthcare associated infections is key to maintaining organizational financial viability in an environment of diminishing resources.

Newly emerging pathogens, MDRO's, pandemic and seasonal influenza, occupational exposures and balancing costs with evidence based practices is a daily juggling act performed by every Infection Preventionist in their attempts to provide a safe environment of care for all patients and a safe work environment for staff.

Attending this innovative conference you will get the cutting-edge strategies and tips to implement in your facility can handle various levels of Infection Control threats.  This exclusive learning opportunity in infection prevention and control is designed to help health care professionals learn about the various levels of Infection Control threats using best practices from nationally recognized experts in infection control around the country. 

Faculty have provided the tools that they created to sustain changes and developed a CD-ROM for you to take back to create your own interdisciplinary collaborations and successful approaches to drive change in control and preventing infections in health care organizations.

Attend this conference and receive these for free!
MDRO Toolkit
Hand Hygiene Monograph
Influenza Monograph
Handy Hygiene Posters

Objectives
• Describe the current state of the infection prevention and control environment and how to use that information to prioritize strategies for improvement.
• Examine the evolution of patient safety and clinical performance related to infection prevention and control.
• Analyze methods for enhancing the infection prevention practice relating to emerging pathogens within your organization.
• Evaluate and apply innovative approaches to identifying and controlling costs of MDROs

Target Audience
Infection preventionist, epidemiologists, physicians and nurses involved with infectious diseases, employee health nurses, public/community health professionals, risk managers, quality improvement professionals, researchers and clinical faculty from medical, pharmaceutical and nursing programs, department administrators, regulators, health professional organizations.

Day One - Friday, August 21, 2009 

8:00 – 8:15 am

Opening/Welcome

Barbara Moore Soule, RN, MPA, CIC
Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL

Overview of Conference
Moderator
Carol O’Boyle, RN, PhD
JCR IC Practitioner
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL

8:30 – 10:30 am
Complying with Guidelines from Other Organizations

Keynote – Navigating the Infection Prevention and Control Landscape

Moderator:  Barb Soule, RN
Consultant, Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook, IL

The initiative by federal agencies to reduce health associated infections (HAIs) is recognized as a shared responsibility of the government, the healthcare industry, and consumers.  Listen to these government agencies and medical centers to determine the most effective methods to reduce HAIs and lower costs of antibiotic resistance for your organization. 

Panel Discussion

Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
P. J. Brennan, M.D.
Chair, HICPAC
Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Center for Medicare & Medicaid

Don Wright, MD, MPH
United States Department of Health and Human Services' Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health
Washington, DC

Jeannie Miller, RN, MPh
Deputy Director of Clinical Standards and Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Baltimore, MD

Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH, FACOEM
Director, Office of Occupational Medicine 
Occupational Safety and Health Association
Washington, DC
 

Margaret VanAmringe
Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relations
The Joint Commission
Washington DC office

10:30 – 10:45 am
Break

10:45-12:00 pm

Plenary – Using the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals

The Compendium was developed by the HAI-Allied Task Force including:
• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
• Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
• American Hospital Association (AHA)
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC)
• The Joint Commission
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that five to 10 percent of hospitalized patients develop an HAI.  This figure corresponds to approximately two million HAIs associated with more than 90,000 deaths each year in U.S. hospitals.  The Compendium, published in October 2008, presents evidence-based strategies designed to assist organizations with reducing six common HAIs.  At this session, learn how:
• The Compendium can be used to reduce the rate of HAIs in the acute care setting
• The Compendium will be maintained to provide up-to-date implementation strategies
• How the surveyors will be addressing the three HAI-focused NPSGs in 2010

Kelly Podgorny, RN, MS, CQHQ
Project Director, Division of Standards & Survey Methods
The Joint Commission
Oakbrook Terrace, IL

Incorporating the Compendium into Clinical Practice
Russ Olmsted, MPH
Director of Epidemiology
Trinity Health System
Ann Arbor, MI

*Russell Olmsted is being sponsored by Premier through an unrestricted educational grant.

12:15 – 1:30 pm

Lunch and Learn
Linda Kusek reports on the "Strategies for Implementing Successful Influenza Immunization Programs for Health Care Personnel" project.

Linda Kusek
Associate Project Director
Division of Quality Measurement & Reszearch
The Joint Commission

1:30 –2:45 pm

Safe Injection Practices to Protect Patients and Healthcare Workers

 

Thirty-three (33) outbreaks resulted in 448 patients acquiring hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus infection in the non-hospital healthcare setting in the past decade from failure of healthcare personnel to follow basic infection control and aseptic techniques.  As healthcare is increasingly provided in the outpatient setting, urgent action is needed.  This session will discuss a comprehensive approach to reduce risk of patient-to-patient transmission.  The risk to workers in the non-acute setting from lack of adoption of safety devices will also be addressed.

Gina Pugliese, RN, MS
Vice President, Premier Safety Institute
Adjunct Faculty, Rush University College of Nursing and University of Illinois Public Health
Chicago, IL
*Gina Pugliese is being sponsored by Premier through an unrestricted educational grant.

2:45 – 3:00 pm
Break

3:00 – 4:00 pm

The Financial Impact of Antibiotic Resistance
The primary driver of increased costs of antimicrobial resistance is the increase in the length of the hospitalization.  Other contributors are the increased expenses of radiographic and other diagnostic testing and pharmacy costs.  Learn what your organization can do to control the cost of MDRO’s.

Keith Kaye, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Corporate Director,
Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University, Harper University Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases
Detroit, MI

Day Two Saturday August 22, 2009

7:00 -  8:00 am              
Breakfast Briefing on MDRO Tool Kit
At the conference you will be provided with a MDRO Took Kit.  This session will provide an overview  and highlight the benefits and application of the kit.

Barbara Moore Soule, MPA RN, CIC
Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control     
 
Update/Announcements
Moderator
Carol O’Boyle, RN, MS, PhD

8:15 – 10:15 am
IC “Stimulus” Package for 2010 and Beyond

Learn creative ways to structure the IC department in 2010.  To make it lean and incorporate Six Sigma to develop efficient processes and methods to justify expenditures for your IC program to administration.

Barbara Moore Soule, MPA, RN, CIC
Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control

Carol O’Boyle, RN,MS, PhD
IC Practitioner

Joint Commission Resources

10:15 -10:30 am
Break

10:30 – 12:00 pm
Innovative Technology to Prevent Infections:  Balancing Costs with Outcome
Learn how to use value analysis to review clinical benefits and costs to review innovative technology to balance the IC costs and outcome in your organization.  What process does your organization use? Hear a case study to help to implement “best practice” guidelines.

Keith Kaye, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Corporate Director,
Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University, Harper University Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases
Detroit, MI

12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch & learn
Occupational Infections Among Health Care Workers: What Have We Learned? 

Bring your lunch and network with Dr. Bray and your colleagues and learn about the OSHA inspections for Infectious Diseases in healthcare and laboratory settings and learn about the OSHA findings on Occupational Infections.  Dr. Bray will be addressing H1N1. She will focus on the latest data obtained  by OSHA and their recommendations for managing the employee health issues and challenges.

Patricia Bray, MD, MPH
Medical Officer
Office of Occupational Medicine
Occupational Health & Safety
Washington DC

1:00-1:45 pm

Using Performance Improvement Tools to Get to Zero HAI!

This session will highlight how Infection Preventionists have led performance improvement initiatives, using principles of lean engineering, to understand and redesign the experience of the patient with a central venous catheter and their healthcare team.

Denise Murphy, M.P.H.
Vice President
Quality Main Line Health System
Bryn Mawr, PA

1:45 – 2:00 pm
Break

2:00 – 3:15 pm
Building a Business Case for Infection Control Interventions

Project management requires the developing and implantation of a detailed business plan in today’s economy.  To make your infection prevention initiative accountable and successful, you will need to develop a roadmap to manage the project.  Using IC case management examples, hear how the IC practitioner can utilize economic principles to guide successful projects for their organization.

Eli Perencevich,MD, MS
Medical Director for Infection Control,
University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC)
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and
VA Maryland Health Care System
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

3:15-4:15PM

Infection Prevention and Control:  The Premier Patient Safety Program!

This presenter will share a case study highlighting the evolution of patient safety and clinical performance improvement programs that began with infection prevention and control as the model for implementation of data-driven interventions and sustained improvement.

Denise Murphy, RN., MPH, CIC
Vice President, Quality
Main Line Health System
Bryn Mawr, PA   

4:30 pm
Summary and adjournment
Carol O’Boyle, RN, MS, PhD
JCR IC Practitioner
Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL

*Agenda subject to change.  Last updated on July 27, 2009.

Hotel Information and Program Location
Marriott Crystal Gateway
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, Virginia 22202 USA
Phone:  1-703-920-3230
Fax:  1-703-271-5212
Room rate: $149
Cut-off date: August 4, 2009
Online reservations, click here.

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August 21-22, 2009, Arlington, VA
Program code: 09064
Program fee: $749 per registrant
Early bird fee: $695 per registrant
(Expires August 21, 2009.  Payment must be received by August 21, 2009)
Teams of three or more that register at the same time: $625 per registrant
To register for this program, please call Customer Service at 877-223-6866. 

There is a pre-conference to the Infection Control Conference.

Please note:  JCR's concern for safety, quality and sustainability extends beyond the health care setting.  We will provide program handouts that are printed six slides to a page in an effort to reduce paper waste and mitigate our impact on the environment.  You will be able to download program materials from our website after the program has occurred.  The necessary login and password information will be provided to you at the conference.

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