How to Choose and Implement Sensible Ambulatory Infection Prevention Policies

About this Event:

Physician offices, clinics and other ambulatory care settings may struggle to implement manageable and appropriate infection control practices that go beyond Standard Precautions. Incorporating a basic risk assessment with respect to infection control in your practice is an important first step in strengthening infection control protocols, and can inform subsequent infection control policies that can be implemented to help keep your patients and your health care team safe. Organizational behavior management strategies can help practices that have limited staff and resources successfully implement new policies with limited disruption to office workflows.

Join the Illinois State Medical Society for a session with Emily Landon, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and leader of the Infection Prevention and Control Program at the University of Chicago, who will discuss the risk assessment process and how to use organizational behavior management strategies to help practices and facilities incorporate infection control policies and protocols effectively and consistently.

This is the final program in a series of three webinars ISMS is hosting related to infection management and prevention. Project Firstline is a national collaborative led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide infection control training and education to frontline health care workers and public health personnel. The American Medical Association (AMA) has partnered with Project Firstline, as supported through Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-CK20-2003. ISMS is proud to collaborate with AMA and Project Firstline in this educational activity. CDC is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this event do not necessarily represent the policies of CDC or HHS and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government.