Infection Prevention Goals and Components of Today's Requirements

Video Training

Category: Infection Prevention

Title: Infection Prevention Goals and Component's of Today's Requirements

Presenters: Cathy Montgomery, RN and Mary Bennett, RN, CIC,  Infection Preventionist, Excellentia Advisory Group

Cathy Montgomery, RN, President of Excellentia Advisory Group

Cathy has over 20 years of experience in healthcare services management. During her position as Regional Manager for Barnes Hospital, Cathy oversaw several physician practices. As Regional Administrator for Novamed, she oversaw operations of the physician practices, as well as the ambulatory surgery centers and optical shops in the Metro St. Louis and Illinois areas. Under her direction, a state-of-the-art refractive surgery center was also designed and opened in St. Louis, MO. Cathy is Founder and President of Excellentia Advisory Group, a consulting and development company serving both the surgical industry through ASC’s as well as surgical hospitals and office-based surgical practices. Cathy’s passion has been teaching compliance to CMS Conditions of Coverage, AAAHC accreditation, and assisting ASCs with their survey readiness.

Mary Bennett, RN, CIC, As the Director of Infection Control for Excellentia, Mary helps ambulatory surgery centers with the development and implementation of new infection control policies, strategies, and helpful tips for infection control management.  Mary customizes infection control manuals for Excellentia’s clients.  She also does one-on-one training as well as on-site mock surveys to help ASCs become better prepared for CMS infection control survey.  Mary is a teacher/presenter on monthly educational webinars and also authors an Infection Control Newsletter.  Mary just recently passed her CIC examination for her second 5-year term.

Description: 

Learning Objectives:

• You will learn why it is important to have an infection prevention program within your ASC.
• You will learn about the regulatory guidelines for which an infection prevention program will be constructed around.
• You will learn about the principal functions & components of an infection prevention program.

Note-taking version of this PowerPoint Presentation. CLICK HERE to download #1

Note-taking version of this PowerPoint Presentation. CLICK HERE to download #2

Additional handouts that support this presentation:

• *2011 the Joint Commission Accreditation Program for Ambulatory Care
• *FDA Implant Device Tracking
• *Infection Preventionist Job Description
• *Infection Survey Guidelines
• *Surveyor Tool Worksheet
• *CMS letter re: Revised ASC Surveyor Worksheet Instructions

Once you and any/all staff have reviewed this presentation, you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Participation worth one Credit Hour of continuing education. You simply contact us at events@excellentiagroup.com requesting your certificates, using the Certificate Request Form found in the link below. You will need to provide a typed list of all participants first and last names, position title (RN ,BSN, etc.), license numbers (if professionals) and date of completion.

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