CDC's Role in ASC Infection Surveillance & Partnership With ASC Quality Collaboration on Quality Measurement
Video Training
Category: Infection Prevention
Title: CDC's Role in ASC Infection Surveillance & Partnership With ASC Quality Collaboration on Quality Measurement
Presenter:
Daniel Pollock, MD - Surveillance Branch Chief
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Daniel Pollock is a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He joined CDC in 1984 and has worked in the agency’s infectious diseases, informatics, injury prevention and control, and environmental health programs. In 2004 he moved to his current position as chief of the branch at CDC that is responsible for national surveillance of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use and resistance. Dr. Pollock’s clinical background is in internal medicine and emergency medicine. He served as a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in Emory University’s Department of Emergency Medicine and worked part-time as an emergency physician at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta from 1986 through 2007.
Presenter:
Donna Slosburg RN, BSN, LHRM, CASC - Executive Director
ASC Quality Collaboration
As executive director of the ASC Quality Collaboration, Donna Slosburg, RN, helps ASCs improve healthcare quality and safety by developing standardized quality measures, publically reporting quality data and assembling tools for infection prevention. The ASC QC recently introduced a campaign providing ASCs with assessment tools, implementation aids, training materials, monitoring tools and workplace reminders designed to help prevent infection.
Ms. Slosburg is active in fostering a positive relationship between the ASC industry and the federal government. She said in a news release from the ASC QC, "As ASCs provide exceptionally high quality and value to Medicare beneficiaries as well as to the Medicare program, the ASC Quality Collaboration looks forward to working in close partnership with CMS to implement quality measurement that leads to improved patient care in all outpatient surgical settings."
Ms. Slosburg has worked in the healthcare industry for over 30 years and joined the ASC industry in 1987. As a leader in the ASC industry, she has served as a nurse manager, administrator and regional operations coordinator, as well as a senior vice president of surgery operations and national surgery specialist for HealthSouth, one of the nation's largest healthcare services providers.
Description: Dr. Pollock and Donna Slosburg presented at our annual 2016 Infection Prevention Strategies for Ambulatory Surgery Centers conference in Las Vegas, This presentation is worth 1 - Contact Hour. Dr. Pollock and Donna Slosburg provide insight as to how the CDC is working closely with the ASC Quality Collobaration in terms of infection surveillance in the ASC industry. Both presenters give us ideas of what future direction this collaboration will take us in terms of collecting quality outcomes data and assisting the CDC in infection surveillance and predicting trends.
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Other handouts associated with this presentation can be downloaded by selecting/clicking:
- ADOPT Guidance Project Overview
- ASC 2016 ASCQR Program Guide
- Project ADOPT Participants
- Slide Details Mentioned in the Presentation by Donna Slosburg
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