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Critical Partnerships that Create Success: Infection Prevention and Facility Management

Review peer-reviewed literature on the efficacy and potential for byproduct formation from ions and other chemically additive cleaners.

Speaker: ASHEThis New Hospital walks you through all the phases of a construction project from the planning to the occupancy phase. This program details the impact that renovation and construction has on a hospital including patients, visitors and staff. This New Hospital provides the viewer with an insider’s tour of what it truly takes to keep a hospital operational as the healing environment is renovated. 

in this session we will explore the unintended consequences of having so many sinks. We will explore the dynamics of transmission from patient to drain and back to patient. We will present the current understanding of the problem, assess challenges created by antibiotic resistant bacteria in wastewater premise plumbing and explore potential solutions.

Panelists will share their approaches to managing heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires and highlight best practices for creating climate-ready hospitals as anchors for resilient communities.

Jonathan Willard, PMP, LEED-AP, Acute Medical Gas Services. This presentation will review the new requirements for identifying the responsible facility authority and the qualifications necessary for this position, as well as an overview of the Permit-to-Work system.

Jonathan Flannery, Fiona Nemetz, MS, CHESP, T-CHEST, T-CSCT, EMHP. Subject matter experts will explain best practices and recommendations on how to keep patient care areas clean and to avoid the spread of the SARs CoV-2 virus through contact; how ventilation systems can help reduce the spread via airborne transmission and how to properly disinfect and clean systems impacted by the virus.

This presentation provides an outline for the first step in the resiliency process: assessing your facility’s vulnerability.

Jonathan Flannery, Spencer Moore, Mark Mochel. ASHE’s Healthcare Executive Leadership Council conducted an assessment of best practices associated with capital renewal programs, revealing 12 elements that are key to an effective program. This presentation will present these elements and how they can be used to compose a capital renewal program.

A team approach to survey the kitchen on a routine basis, and know what to look for and ask kitchen staff, is key to preventing a kitchen disaster.

Renee Bryce, Melanie Petherick, Rick Burns. Virginia Mason’s main electrical room (MER) upgrade project team leads (electrical contractor, hospital design/construction and emergency management) will discuss the MER project, methodologies for shutdown risk assessment and planning, improvement strategies, real-time redline as-built document updates and collaboration, communications, tools and templates developed, and lessons learned along the way.

From the 2020 PDC Webinar Series. Identify the key decision points when evaluating whether to have your central sterile department on campus or to relocate to an off-site location, and more.

This session will focus on how to successfully integrate NFPA 101-2012, Chapter 43 and NFPA 99-2012, Chapter 4 into a health care organization's construction program.