denotes Educational Track
1 Antimicrobial Resistance; 2 Collaboration; 3 Disinfection Sterilization; 4 Emergency Room Preparedness; 5 IC Program and Business;
6 International; 7 Leadership; 8 New Infection Preventionist; 9 Skill Development; 10 Special Populations/Special Settings; 11 Surveillance
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, June 11
Infection Prevention Strategies for Eliminating
General Sessions
Mediastinitis Surgical Site Infections
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Kathleen Kohut, RN, MS, CIC, CNOR
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Independent Infection Prevention Consultant, Charlotte, NC
(CMS) Updates
According to the American Heart Association, approximately
700,000 open heart procedures are performed every year in
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
the United States and of these, more than sixty-seven percent
are Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting procedures (CABG).
APIC Business Updates
Mediastinitis is a devastating infectious complication involving
the mediastinal space of the chest that can occur after an open
heart surgical procedure. The presenter will focus on basic
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
strategies for the prevention of mediastinitis.
Patient Safety and Just Culture
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
David Marx, President
Mandated Infection Prevention and Control
Outcome Engineering
Staffing Ratios in New Jersey
Plano, TX
Kathleen Roye-Horn, RN, CIC
The presenter will discuss the current culture in healthcare that
Director of Infection Control Services
often demands perfection of individual providers. The role of
Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, NJ
system design and behavioral choices and how restructuring of
the current regulatory, civil, and criminal systems will contribute
In 2004, New Jersey established hospital licensure regulations
to a dramatically improved quality of healthcare will be
which mandate a ratio of one infection preventionist for every
described.
200 adjusted occupied beds. The presenter will discuss derivation
of that calculation, its effect on hospitals’ infection prevention
David Marx will be signing his book Whack-a-Mole: Expecting
and control programs and changes being proposed due to
Perfection from Imperfect Human Beings on Wednesday, June 10
mandatory infection reporting regulations.
at 11:30am at the APIC Book Store (3rd level of Convention
Center). All attendees are invited.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Reduction of the Incidence of Healthcare-
Associated MRSA in a 240-Bed Community
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Hospital by Eliminating Use of Contact
Healthcare 2019: Collaborative Approaches to
Precautions
Healthcare Challenges in the Decade Ahead
Nancy Parris, RN, RHIA, MPH, CIC
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, FACMI
Director, Infection Control and Epidemiology
President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Chatsworth, CA
Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN
Contact precautions have been considered one of the essential
The presenter will address our challenges in achieving health and
components of a program designed to reduce the spread of
delivering safe, effective, high-value healthcare. The session will
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) within
examine changing incentives and the new business case for safety
a healthcare facility. This presenter will describe an alternate
and quality. Approaches to organizational transformation, health
strategy which focuses on education of staff and adherence
technologies, and changing clinician behaviors in the era of zero
to standard precautions as an effective means to decrease
tolerance for healthcare-associated infections will be discussed.
the transmission of MRSA. Examples of institutions which
have successfully implemented this alternate strategy will be
discussed.
Session is sponsored by an unrestricted education
grant from BD. The speaker is not sponsored.
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