Gain practical solutions to prevent
and control infectious disease
Today, infection control professionals must meet an increasing list of urgent demands – all related to protecting patients and health care workers from a host of infectious organisms that is increasing exponentially. Meeting, Succeeding and Exceeding – Joint Commission Resources Annual Infection Prevention and Control Conference will present vital strategies to overcoming an always-evolving threat.
This two-day conference will focus on how health care organizations are meeting requirements and protocols, succeeding at infection prevention and control, and exceeding expectations through innovative approaches. This important gathering will examine the big picture – how infection control professionals can minimize dangers by linking effective data gathering with productive collaboration.
Interact with successful infection control leaders
Distinguished faculty with a track record of infection control achievement will lead interactive conference sessions. Audience members will have opportunities to establish fruitful dialogue with expert presenters and panel members. This exchange of ideas and viewpoints will help you to:
• Build upon the public reporting of health care-associated infection (HAI) data to advocate for enhanced infection prevention and control
• Drive positive change through evidence-based clinical practice guidelines addressing influenza vaccinations and the prevention and control of MDROs such as MRSA, VRE, Clostridium difficil and other “superbugs”
• Achieve workforce transformation and behavioral commitment to infection prevention best practices using methods such as collaboration, teamwork and diffusion theory • Apply The Joint Commission’s infection prevention and control standards and
elements of performance in your health care setting
• Understand how innovative building design and new technologies such as biochips can combat infection
• Learn why “medical tourism” poses new infection control hazards
Who Should Attend
• infection control professionals • epidemiologists• physicians and nurses involved with infection control
• employee health nurses • public and community
health professionals • risk managers
• quality improvement professionals • department administrators • regulators
• health care professional societies • researchers clinical faculty from medical,
pharmaceutical and nursing programs.
Call for 2008 Presentations!
It’s not too early to submit a proposal to present at the 2008 Joint Commission Resources’ Annual Infection Prevention and Control Conference. Go to www.jcrinc.com/IC2008proposals for more information.
Day One Agenda
TOPICS AND ACTIVITIES7:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Check-in and Registration
8:00 am - 5:15 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dennis S. O’Leary, MD, President The Joint Commission and
Karen Timmons, President and CEO Joint Commission Resources
Update: Public Reporting
Conference Moderator (Day One) Barbara M. Soule, RN, MPA, CIC Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control Joint Commission Resources • Meeting . . . the Requirements
for Valid and Reliable Public Reporting Rates
Eddie Hedrick, BS, MT(ASCP), CIC Emerging Infections Coordinator Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
• Succeeding . . . at the National Consensus Standards for Infection Control Patrick J. Brennan, MD University of Pennsylvania Chair, CDC-HICPAC
• Exceeding . . . at the Business Case: Adopting Zero Tolerance for HAIs Denise Murphy, RN, BSN, MPH, CIC Chief Safety and Quality Officer Barnes-Jewish Hospital
2007 APIC President
Public Reporting
Dialogue Session
Patrick J. Brennan, MD
Teresa Garrison, RN, MSN, CIC Consultant, Joint Commission Resources Eddie Hedrick, BS, MT(ASCP), CIC Denise Murphy, RN, BSN, MPH, CIC
The Joint Commission’s
Risk Assessment Guidelines:
How Does Your Organization
Measure Up?
Louise Kuhny, RN, MPH, MBA, CIC Associate Director-Standards Interpretation The Joint Commission
• Meeting … the Challenges of Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccine Protocols
Teresa Garrison, RN, MSN, CIC • Succeeding … Strategies to Prevent and
Control MDROs Arjun Srinivasan, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Exceeding … Designing Your Facility
To Combat Infection
Judene Bartley, MS, MPH, CIC VP Epidemiology Consulting Services Clinical Consultant, Safety Institute Premier, Inc.
The Cutting-edge –
Hot Topics in Infection Control: Medical Tourism, Biochips to Diagnose Infections, IT and IC, SSIs
Barbara M. Soule, RN, MPA, CIC Russell Olmstead, MPH, CIC Epidemiologist, St. Joseph Mercy Health Systems and President, Applied Epidemiology Solutions (AES) Trish Perl, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist
Johns Hopkins University Dan Schabacker
Team Leader, Biochip Group Argonne National Laboratory
Day Two Agenda
TOPICS AND ACTIVITIES7:00 am Breakfast
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Update: ICP Workforce
Transformation: Responding
to the Demands Ahead
Conference Moderator (Day Two) Carol A. O’Boyle, RN, MS, PhD Consultant, Joint Commission Resources • Meeting … The Power of
Collaboration and Teamwork: Michigan’s Keystone Project Russell Olmstead, MPH, CIC • Succeeding … Diffusion Theory:
Spreading Best Practices Throughout Your Organization Trish Perl, MD, MSc
• Exceeding … Case study via open submission process
Present Like a Pro
As infection control initiatives and public reporting continue to move to the forefront for hospitals and hospital leadership, more infection control professionals are being called upon to present data in a meaningful way. Cindi Maxey, CSP
Communications Consultant Author, “Present Like A Pro” 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Post-Conference Workshop
Joint Commission Infection Control Standards for Hospitals and
Nonhospital Settings
Risk Assessment, Infection Control Planning, and Tracer Methodology Teresa Garrison, RN, MSN, CIC Louise Kuhny, RN, MPH, MBA, CIC Carol A. O’Boyle, RN, MS, PhD Barbara M. Soule, RN, MPA, CIC
Faculty
Judene Bartley, MS, MPH, CIC
VP Epidemiology Consulting Services Clinical Consultant, Safety Institute
Premier, Inc. Patrick J. Brennan, MD University of Pennsylvania Chair, CDC-HICPAC Philadelphia, PA Teresa Garrison, RN, MSN, CI
Consultant, Joint Commission Resources Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Eddie Hedrick, BS, MT(ASCP), CIC
Emerging Infections Coordinator
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Louise Kuhny, RN, MPH, MBA, CIC
Associate Director - Standards Interpretation The Joint Commission
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Cyndi Maxey, CSP
Communications Consultant Author, “Present Like a Pro” Chicago, IL
Denise Murphy, RN, BSN, MPH, CIC
Chief Patient Safety and Quality Officer Barnes-Jewish Hospital
St. Louis, MO 2007 APIC President
Carol A. O’Boyle. RN, MS, PhD
Consultant
Joint Commission Resources Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Dennis S. O’Leary, MD
President
The Joint Commission Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Russell Olmstead, MPH, CIC
Epidemiologist
St. Joseph Mercy Health System and President, Applied Epidemiology Solutions (AES) Ann Arbor, MI
Trish Perl, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Dan Schabacker
Team Leader, Biochip Group Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL
Barbara M. Soule, RN, MPA, CIC
Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Arjun Srinivasan, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA
Karen Timmons
President and CEO Joint Commission Resources Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Dialogue at the Drake
Chicago’s historic Drake Hotel will provide an inspiring setting for learning and professional interaction. This four-diamond lakefront hotel is located on Michigan Avenue – Chicago’s Magnificent Mile – walking distance to the beach and the Gold Coast – the city’s main shopping, restaurant and nightlife district.
The Drake’s amenities include luxurious guest rooms with high-speed Internet. Renowned on-site dining facilities include the world-famous Cape Cod Room, Coq d’Or, High Tea at the Palm Court, and 24-hour room service. The Drake Arcade features specialty stores, an art gallery and a florist.
On the weekend preceding the conference, Chicago’s 49th Annual Air and Water Show happens on the lakefront right outside the Drake. Consider arriving early to see this spectacular event! (JCR’s room block rates cannot be guaranteed to people who arrive early or stay beyond the conference.)
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Meeting, Succeeding and Exceeding Joint Commission Resources
Annual Infection Prevention and Control Conference
August 20-21, 2007 Drake Hotel, Chicago, IL
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Continuing Education Units
Joint Commission Resources is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Joint Commission Resources takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. Joint Commission Resources designates this educational activity for a maximum of 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Joint Commission Resources is also accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Joint Commission Resources designates this continuing nursing education activity for 11.5 hours.
Joint Commission Resources is authorized to award 11.0 hours of pre-approved Category II (non-ACHE) continuing education credit for this program toward
advancement, or re-certification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program wishing to have the continuing education hours applied toward Category II credit should indicate their attendance when submitting application to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or re-certification. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 6381 for 11.5 contact hours.
Summary of applicable hours: ACCME: 11.5; ANCC: 11.5; ACHE: 11; California Board of Registered Nursing: 11.5.
Summary of Post Conference hours 3.0
Full attendance at every session is a prerequisite for receiving full continuing education credits. If a participant needs to leave early, his or her continuing education credits will be reduced.
Substitutions, Transfers, and Cancellation Policy
Registration is nontransferable between JCR education programs due to variability in program sponsors; it is permissible to send an alternate attendee. Your registration fee, less a $50 service charge, is refundable, if written notice of cancellation is faxed 5 business days to 630-792-5423 prior to the start of the program. Discounts may not be combined. Joint Commission Resources reserves the right to cancel or reschedule a program due to an insufficient number of registrants or other unforeseen circumstances. If a program must be cancelled, the registration fee will be refunded in full to each registrant. Neither The Joint Commission nor Joint Commission Resources is responsible for a registrant's travel expenses in the event a program is cancelled. Participants are encouraged to purchase refundable tickets in case a program is cancelled or rescheduled. Participants should also be aware that most airline tickets, including nonrefundable or discounted tickets, can be reissued within one year from the date the original ticket was issued.
Americans with Disabilities Act If you require any of the auxiliary aides or services identified in the Americans with Disabilities Act in order to attend this Joint Commission Resources program, please call 630-792-5425 or write to the Department of Education, Joint Commission Resources, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181.
Program Agendas and Faculty
Agendas are subject to change because we are always striving to improve the quality of your educational experience. Joint Commission Resources may substitute faculty with comparable expertise on rare occasions necessitated by illness, scheduling conflicts, and so forth.
Cover photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force Medical Service
Hotel Information Drake Hotel
140 E. Walton Place, Chicago, IL 60611 Reservations: 312-787-2200
Room Block: Joint Commission Resources Annual
Infection Prevention and Control Conference
Room Rate: $179/Single; $199/Double Cut-off Date: July 30, 2007
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once your registration is confirmed. The necessary login and password information
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