You won't want to miss
this webinar where you'll hear officials from Piedmont Healthcare system
in Atlanta and Upstate University Hospital in New York discuss exciting
new infection control strategies.
Hospital-acquired infections
are one of healthcare's biggest burdens. They sicken – and sometimes
kill – hundreds of thousands of patients in the U.S. every year. Those
grim statistics aside, they can take a grievous toll on a hospital's
bottom line, as treatment and prolonged inpatient stays can cost an
individual institution thousands of dollars per afflicted patient..
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Faculty:
Michael O'Toole, Jenay Beshears, Paul
Suits, and Elizabeth Hartigan.
Michael
O'Toole joined Piedmont Healthcare in September 2012 as
Executive Director, Project Management Office. He was
responsible for leading the health system's lean transformation
program. In addition, he led large system-wide strategic
performance improvement projects, supporting Piedmont's
Executive leadership team.
Jenay Beshears
is Infection Prevention Manager for Piedmont Healthcare in
Stockbridge, Georgia. She has been a registered nurse for 25
years. Her specialties include Labor and Delivery, Outpatient
services, Endoscopy, Occupational Health and Infection
Prevention. She has been an Infection Preventionist since 2011,
and received her CIC in 2014.
Paul Suits
is the Director of Infection Prevention at Upstate Medical
University. He has a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology
and 15 years of experience in the Microbiology laboratory. He
has dedicated 12 years working on Quality improvement projects
in the Infection Prevention department at Upstate Medical
University and is Certified in Infection Control.
An
experienced Intensive Care Unit Nurse, Elizabeth
Hartigan has held various roles in healthcare in her 11
years of practice including critical care staff nurse in both
Medical ICU and Trauma ICU, Medical ICU clinical leader and
educator, MICU assistant nurse manager, and clinical nurse
educator.
Also joining our speakers will be DNV GL
Healthcare President and CEO,
Patrick Horine and Ron Shinkman,
Healthcare Journalist.
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