Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
of this past year’s activities previously summarized. Some goals of note include the following:
∙ Convene at least 2 meetings of the joint SHEA and APIC task force.
° We continue to meet annually once in person and once by
∙ Launch joint education opportunities to train infection prevention teams.
° An annual Leadership Development Program was approved
by both boards in 2015, and the inaugural program will be hosted in Arlington, Virginia, in December 2018. The focus is on strengthening infection preventionist and hospital epide- miologist teams to enhance their negotiations with health care organization executive leadership and advocate for resources.
∙ Develop annual joint session held at the SHEA Spring Conference and APIC Annual Conference.
° The first session was held at APIC 2017 and focused on
∙ Meet with patient advocacy and consumer groups to develop positive, trusting relationships and to work in partnership around mutual infection prevention goals.
National Healthcare Safety Network rebaselining. The second joint session was held at SHEA and APIC respectively in 2018 and focused on antimicrobial stewardship.
conference call. These meetings serve to keep the changing society leaders informed about the partnership and on track to meet goals.
1399 ° Both SHEA and APIC continue to develop independent
strategies in this area and will continue to discuss ways to effectively partner in this area.
The collaborative efforts of SHEA and APIC have helped to
shine a light on the important work of preventing infections among patients. This work is crucial to the missions of our organizations: keeping patients safe and promoting responsible, effective, and efficient care that preserves clinical resources, especially antibiotics, for future generations. In our ever-changing healthcare environment, this collaboration helps to assure that sound principles for epidemiology and infection prevention are applied to policy and practice. This year, we are particularly excited about launching the
annual Joint APIC-SHEA Leadership Development Program. By working together to train and prepare infection prevention lea- ders of today and tomorrow, APIC and SHEA are making certain that patients have the best opportunity to avoid healthcare- associated infections and have safe and positive health outcomes. Health care will surely continue to change, and APIC and SHEA together can promote appropriate policies and practices and do our best to make certain that adequate resources are allocated to infection prevention, because together we reach further across the continuum of care to prevent infections in diverse populations in all settings. Our organizations together are leading the response to assure safer care for all.
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