APIC Transitions

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Transitions of Care from the Infection
Preventionist’s Perspective
IHCA
7/13/2016
Aimee Baerlocher MPH, CIC
St. Luke’s Health System
Robin Nettleton MSN, RN
St. Luke’s Health System
Susan Heppler RN, BSN
ID Department of Health, Bureau of Communicable
Disease
Martha Jaworski MS, RN, CIC
Qualis Health
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Objectives
• Resources for care transitions
• Multidrug resistant organisms: National
Agenda
• C. difficile
• Cleaning and hand hygiene
• Testing
• Isolation
• Infection prevention challenges in the LTC
setting
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Why Work Across Care Settings?
• Stop the spread of infections!
• Identify and manage multidrug resistant
organisms
• Update immunization status
• Support antimicrobial stewardship
• Antibiotic indication
• Antibiotic stop times/time out
• Reduce readmissions*
• Improve medication management
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Community Coalitions
• Several communities in
Idaho work on improving
care transitions
• Forum for organizations in
a region to identify
interventions based on
community-specific data
• Work on diverse projects
such as information
transfer, medications and
sepsis education
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http://www.cdc.gov/hai/pdfs/toolkits/InfectionControlTransferFormExample1.pdf 11
http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/enrolled-facilities/index.html 12
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http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/enrolled-
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facilities/index.html
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C. difficile
Events in Idaho
Standardized Infection Ratio by Quarter
1.200
1.000
0.800
0.600
0.400
14 large hospitals –13 quarters
3 small hospitals –6, 9, 11 quarters
0.200
0.000
Q1_13 Q2_13 Q3_13 Q4-13 Q1_14 Q2_14 q3_14 Q4_14 Q1_15 Q2_15 Q3_15 Q4_15 Q1_16
2014 National SIR Idaho SIR by quarter 16
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Q & A
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Contact
Martha Jaworski, MS, RN, CIC
QI Consultant
Qualis Health
[email protected]
208-388-5944
For more information:
www.Medicare.QualisHealth.org
http://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Health/Epidemiology/tabid/11
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This material was prepared by Qualis Health, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network -Quality Improvement Organization
(QIN-QIO) for Idaho and Washington, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. ID-C1-QH-
2359-05-16
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Healthcare Associated Infections
(HAI) Program
Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare
Mission:
To promote and protect the health and safety of Idahoans.
Idaho’s HAI Program
Susan Heppler, RN, BSN, HAI Coordinator
Dr. Kathryn Turner, HAI Director, Deputy State Epidemiologist,
and Chief, Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention
Dr. Christine Hahn, Medical Director and State Epidemiologist
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