Spring 2025 IPC Collaboration Series
Includes a Live Web Event on 04/07/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT)
Recorded On: 03/10/2025
-
You must log in to register
- Member - Free!
Ring in the New Year with APIC's Spring 2025 IPC Collaboration Series focusing on Construction and Renovation! This series provides an opportunity for participants to hear from IPs and various department leaders about best practices and results which can be accomplished when leveraging strong inter-departmental relationships.
See webinars in this series below. Please note, you will be registering for all webinars in this series.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Collaborative Approach to Effective Environmental Infection Control During Construction in Healthcare
CE: 1/IPU: 1
Monday, January 13, 2025 @ 1 pm ET
Chris Olson, MBA, M(ASCP)CM, CIC, LTC-CIP, CPHQ and ART GOGUEN, MEPM
The presentation focuses on the collaboration of science, performance, and facilitation as critical relationships to achieve successful infection prevention and control
Learning Objectives:
1. How does the hospital ensure that the contractors that are brought in have the requisite training prior to project commencement?
2. The science behind healthcare construction containment design and critical check points to observe during containment monitoring.
3. Some of the Best Practices that are critical to the delivery of exceptional environmental infection control measures during construction in healthcare facilities.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
IP and Healthcare Construction: Built for Safety
CE:1/IPU:1
Monday, February 10, 2025 @ 1 pm ET
Kristen VanderElzen, MPH, CIC and Rusty Hudson, Assoc. AIA
New building planning and construction for healthcare is a multi-faceted process. Infection Prevention ICRA’s often focus on the build process (earth moving and physical construction), however, design and commissioning processes are key stages in ensuring the safety of the building for staff and patients. Infection Preventionists (IPs) may not be familiar with the different aspects of commissioning. They need to know how they can ensure that testing best practices are met and the building meets with expected parameters. IPs need to ensure the new owners of the building (Maintenance/Facilities) understand how to prepare and maintain it once they have taken over from the contractor and before patients occupy it. Our different perspectives enable us to identify risks and solutions in a broad sense. Working closely together has allowed us to make quick turnaround on best practice questions and to address potential problems before they arise.
Learning objectives:
1. Understand key features related to planning and design for air and water delivery systems in a new/renovated healthcare building.
2. Identify steps to ensure the building is safe for occupancy.
3. Describe the as-built review, review of special water systems (RO, etc.) and special air management environments.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blueprint for health: uniting infection prevention and facilities in construction excellence
CE:1/IPU:1
Monday, March 10, 2025 @ 1 pm ET
Kelly Zabriskie, BS, MLS, CIC, FAPIC and Chris Reitz
As our health system continued to grow and construction and renovation projects seemed to escalate, the System Infection Preventionist (IP) and the System Facility Regulatory leaders began to look at our overall process for construction/renovation projects. We identified that there was no consistency in the protocols being followed and we needed to create an aligned approach. Construction/renovation projects can be big or small, scheduled or emergent, performed by in house staff or by contractors; but regardless of the project there needed to be a standardized approach that created a partnership between the facility and infection prevention team to minimize the risks to patients in the hospital. We gathered other stakeholders to join our initiative, including Planning, Desing and Construction (PDC) and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), to brainstorm for a standardized process towards construction projects that removed variation and created consistency. Initially, Bi-weekly ICRA Committees were established at each hospital with defined members and goals to review construction projects. We then instituted a software tool that generated construction permits that required approval by IP and EHS once construction ICRAs were inputted by facilities. In depth education sessions were provided for facilities, infection prevention, PDC and contractors to ensure full understanding and alignment of the new process. A collaborative, coordinated approach helped secure a standardized approach to construction and renovation projects. Over the next year, we followed up with meetings to identify concerns, gaps and areas for improvements with the new aligned process.
Learning Objectives:
1.How to foster a collaborative relationship between facilities and IP
2.Develop a business case for creating a standardized approach for construction/renovation projects
3.How to identify stakeholders to support your plan -How to sustain engagement and provide improvement
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The IP, the PM and the Construction Site
CE:1/IPU:1
Monday, April 7, 2025 @ 1 pm ET
Candice Fearon, MSGH, BSN, RN, CIC and Natalie Jordan
Any construction or renovation project in or around a healthcare setting carries unique considerations and challenges. The Project Managers (PMs) are the leads with the Infection Preventionist (IP) providing support and subject matter expertise. In a large academic medical center, construction and renovations are endless. As such the Facilities Design & Construction (FDC) and Clinical Epidemiology (Epi) departments have over time built a collaborative relationship aimed to provide the safest environment for patients and staff during construction or renovation.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the collaborative relationship between the Infection Preventionist and Project Manager during construction or renovations projects
2. Understand the role of the Infection Preventionist during construction or renovation projects
3. Understand the role of the Project Manager during construction
4. Recognize the types of projects requiring close collaboration with the Infection Preventionist
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
By registering for this webinar, you agree to be contacted by program sponsor and APIC Industry Partners: i-Health, Inc. and the Chicago Faucet Company. APIC acknowledges i-Health and The Chicago Faucet Company for their commercial support of this educational activity.
Continuing Education (CE) Credit:
In support of improving patient care, The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Nursing:
- APIC designates this activity for 4 Nursing Contact Hours
Physicians:
- APIC designates this live course activity for a maximum of 4 PRA Category 1 Credits™
- Physicians should claim only the credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IPUs:
- APIC designates this activity for 4 infection prevention unit(s).
- For more information, please see https://www.cbic.org/CBIC/Recertify/Recertification-by-Continuing-Education.htm
Chris Olson, MBA, M(ASCP)CM, CIC, LTC-CIP, CPHQ
Infection Prevention Program Manager
UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital
Chris Olson is the Infection Prevention Program Manager at UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital in Colorado with 23 years of healthcare experience, 10 years in Infection Prevention. He has his Associates Degree in Medical Laboratory Technology, a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and MBA in Healthcare Administration from the University of Colorado Denver. He also holds his CIC, LTC-CIP and CPHQ certifications. Chris has been a part of a complete new hospital build, other majors construction projects and disaster level flooding.
ART GOGUEN, MEPM
consulting director
Higgins and Associates, LLC
Art has over 45 years of work experience as a plant, sector, and corporate environmental health and safety (EHS) management. Art holds a master’s degree in environmental policy and management from Denver University with diverse work experience in clean-room infrastructure, environmental management, safety engineering, industrial hygiene & environmental health, and environmental infection control. Art currently works as a consulting director at Higgins and Associates, LLC in Englewood, Colorado since 2007 providing environmental health and safety services to commercial, industrial and healthcare clients.
Kristen VanderElzen, MPH, CIC
Infection Prevention and Epidemiology Project Manager
Michigan Medicine
Kristen VanderElzen is an Infection Prevention and Epidemiology Project Manager at Michigan Medicine. She specializes in Construction and Facilities Planning.
Rusty Hudson, Assoc. AIA
Construction Project Engineering Lead
D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion at Michigan Medicine
Rusty Hudson is the Construction Project Engineering Lead for the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion at Michigan Medicine. In this role, Rusty serves as a liaison between the design/construction team and the clinical users on construction-related issues during the construction and activation of the new 12-story, 700,000 SF hospital due to open in late Fall 2025.
Kelly Zabriskie, BS, MLS, CIC, FAPIC
Enterprise Vice President of Infection Prevention
Jefferson Health in Philadelphia
Kelly Zabriskie, MLS, BS, CIC, is Enterprise Vice President of Infection Control for Jefferson Health and President of the regional chapter of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control. Before coming to Jefferson in 2016, she was Infection Preventionist at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center and previous to that, Director of Infection Control and Risk Management at Kimball Medical Center.
When COVID-19 surged into Philadelphia, Zabriskie responded with courage, clarity, and calm. Her expertise and leadership saved lives, kept Jefferson safe, and inspired confidence that Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University could manage the coronavirus and eventually tame it. She has been an important resource in providing safety services to nursing homes in the region, and her expertise has been invaluable to businesses globally through Jefferson’s partnership with Aramark and the creation of EverSafeOS©.
Chris Reitz
Senior Director of Facilities Regulatory Compliance
Jefferson Health
Chris Reitz, Senior Director of Facilities Regulatory Compliance for Jefferson Health, has responsibility for facility survey readiness. Additionally, he participates in multiple Codes, Standards, and Advocacy development organizations and committees.
Lela Luper, BSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC, T-CHEST (Moderator)
Infection Preventionist
Chickasaw Nation Department of Health
Lela Luper is currently Manager of Infection Prevention and Control at the Chickasaw Nation Department of Health in Ada, OK. Lela was an inaugural member of APIC’s Fellow class. A member of the APIC-Oklahoma Chapter, Lela has served as both the treasurer and chapter legislative representative. She has served on the Member Services Committee, Branding taskforce, Annual Conference Committee, Education Committee, APIC Board of Directors, and was recently elected to the Nominating and Awards Committee. She currently serves at the Facility Guidelines Institute as a revision cycle and steering committee member, as well as on the SHEA Educational Committee. Lela contributed to developing the Roadmap for the Novice Infection Preventionist and the Association for Healthcare Environment text. She serves as faculty for APIC educational courses.
Key:
Complete
Next
Failed
Available
Locked