Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks and Hospitals Collaboration to Improve Quality of Care: Healthcare-Associated Infections — 1.5 C.E.

Monday, November 27, 2017 Archived

2:00 PM ET

Description:

This event will provide an overview of how the Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks (HIINs) work at the regional, state, national, and hospital-system level to sustain and accelerate national progress and momentum toward continued harm reduction in the Medicare program. The HIINs and their hospitals will share their solutions and processes to lower incidence of three healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

Speaker(s):

April M. Carroll, BA, MSN, RN, CNS
Senior Manager, Clinical Operations, Government Services Department, Hospital Improvement Innovation Network, Premier, Inc.
Jan Lienau, BSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC
Infection Preventionist II, Greer Memorial Hospital, Eastern Region
Wing Lee, MBBS, MPH
Senior Project Manager, New York State Partnership for Patients
Maria Sacco, RRT, CPHQ
Program Manager, New York State Partnership for Patients
John Degliuomini, MD, FACS
Deputy Chief of Surgery, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
Monty Littlejohn, MD
Chief Resident, General Surgery, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
Jocelyn Juele-Cesareo, RN, BSN, MN, CIC
Director, Infection Prevention and Control Program, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
Blesilda Zapanta, RN, BSN, MS, CNOR
Assistant Director Nursing, Peri-Operative Services, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
Mariana I. Albert Lesher, MS,
Director, Data, Health Research & Educational Trust, American Hospital Association
Erik St. Pierre, MD
Emergency Department Director, Northern Maine Medical Center
Bethany Bunch, MSHA
Hospital VBP Program Lead, Hospital Inpatient Value, Incentives, and Quality Reporting (VIQR) Outreach and Education Support Contractor (SC)

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