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Session 17 | Infection Prevention and Hospital Readmissions, What’s the Impact?
Time: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
Type/Topic: Operations/Regulatory/Legal Compliance
Room Location: Windermere X
Session Summary
Residents may be readmitted to the hospital due to infection, and striving to prevent these infections may help decrease hospital readmissions. One of the Medicare-Fee-For-Service Claims-Based Measures for the SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP) includes SNF healthcare-associated infections (HAI) requiring hospitalization. This session will identify key metrics that can be used to evaluate the impact of your infection prevention program, prevention strategies beyond the basics for certain types of infections, and the role of infection prevention in quality improvement programs.
Presenters
A.C. Burke
Vice President of Healthcare Quality | RB Health Partners, Inc.
About the Presenter
A.C. Burke is the VP for Healthcare Quality for RB Health Partners, Inc. In this role, she consults with long-term care facilities on infection prevention and control policies, procedures, and practices, and provides training to nursing home infection preventionists and staff on various infection prevention topics, antibiotic stewardship, and quality improvement. A.C.’s prior experience includes working as the Director of Infection Prevention for Mayo Clinic Florida and the Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention Program Manager for the Florida Department of Health. She has 25 years of experience in the healthcare field and is nationally board-certified in infection control (CIC).