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Hospital Acquired Infections and How

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September 14, 2010

 

Wilmington, DE

AGENDA I CEUs I RSVP I  DIRECTIONS I PARKING AND HOTELS I SPEAKERS I SPONSORS

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Point of Care Coordinators and hospital professionals involved in patient care and Infection Control.

 

THOUGHTS TO PONDER

  • What does your institution do to help prevent the spread of infection as it relates to POC devices?

  • Has your Infection Control department adopted any specific changes related to the POCT field?

  • Can you provide any documentation, reference material or data to support the decrease in infection control rates as a result of the changes made?

AGENDA

  • 8:15     Continental Breakfast & Sign-in

  • 8:50     Welcome & Announcements

  • 9:00     Joel Klein, MD, F.A.A.P, FIDSA
                Hospital Acquired Infections:     We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us

  • 10:00   Q&A

  • 10:15  Break

  • 10:30  Rhonda Saxton An Integrated Approach to the Control of HAIs

  • 11:30   Q&A

  • 11:45   Lunch - visit the vendor displays!

  • 12:45   Michelle Powers, MT MDRO’s: An Ounce of Prevention

  • 2:00    Separate business meetings for KEYPOCC and AACC

CONTINUING EDUCATION

  • This Keystone Point of Care Coordinators program provides 3.0 contact hours under the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® program

  • The AACC will provide 3.0 ACCENT credits for this program

RSVP

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

 

From Baltimore: From I-395 S, merge onto I-95 N toward NEW YORK. Keep RIGHT to take I-95 N (Portions toll) (Crossing into DELAWARE). Merge onto CONCORD PIKE/US-202 N via EXIT 8 toward WEST CHESTER.  Turn LEFT onto POWDER MILL RD/DE-141.  Stay STRAIGHT to go onto CHILDRENS DR.  End at 1600 ROCKLAND RD.     

 

From Philadelphia:  From N BROAD ST/PA-611 N, merge onto VINE ST EXPY/I-676 E/US-30 E. Merge onto I-95 S via the exit on the LEFT toward CHESTER/PHILA INT'L AIRPORT (Crossing into DELAWARE). Merge onto CONCORD PIKE/US-202 N via EXIT 8B toward WEST CHESTER. Turn LEFT onto POWDER MILL RD/DE-141. Stay STRAIGHT to go onto CHILDRENS DR.  End at 1600 ROCKLAND RD.  

 

From Harrisburg: From I-83 N toward AIRPORT/HERSHEY, Merge onto I-283 S via EXIT 46A toward I-76/PENNA TURNPIKE/AIRPORT/LANCASTER. Merge onto I-76 E/PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE toward PHILADELPHIA/EXITS 266-359 (Portions toll).  Merge onto PA-100 S via EXIT 312 toward DOWNINGTOWN.  Stay STRAIGHT to go onto US-202 S (Crossing into DELAWARE).  Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto POWDER MILL RD/DE-141.  Stay STRAIGHT to go onto CHILDRENS DR.  End at 1600 ROCKLAND RD.

 

From Lancaster: From LINCOLN HWY E/US-30, Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto NEWPORT PIKE.  NEWPORT PIKE becomes PA-41 E (Crossing into DELAWARE).  Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto LANCASTER PIKE/DE-48 E.  Turn LEFT onto CENTRE RD/DE-141 N. Continue to follow DE-141 N.  Turn LEFT onto POWDER MILL RD/DE-141 N.  Turn RIGHT onto CHILDRENS DR.  End at 1600 ROCKLAND RD.

PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONS

 

Parking at Alfred I DuPont Hospital: Follow the "event/seminar parking" signs to parking lot #5 (after entering gates take 1st right and then left into parking lot 5).  Enter the hospital through the entrance by the playground and follow the signs to the classrooms. The meeting will be held in Classrooms 3 & 4 located on the 3rd floor. 

 

Hotels:

  • Best Western Brandywine Valley Inn I 302.656.9436

  • Courtyard by Marriott Brandywine I 302.477.9500

  • Days Inn Wilmington I 302.478.0300

  • Doubletree Wilmington I 302.478.6000

  • Holiday Inn Wilmington - North I 302.478.2222

  • Homewood Suites by Hilton I 302.479.2000

  • McIntosh Inn I 302.479.7900

SPEAKERS

 

Joel Klein, MD, F.A.A.P, FIDSA  Dr. Klein is presently Member Division of Infectious Diseases and is a member of the Infection Control Committee at AI DuPont Hospital.  His area of expertise is pediatric infectious disease.

 

Rhonda Saxton – HAI Business Specialist, BD Diagnostics -Infectious Disease

 

Michelle Powers, MT  Ms. Powers is the Infection Control Practitioner at AI DuPont Hospital.  She was formerly a Medical Technologist specializing in Microbiology/Immunology.

SPONSORS

 

Special thanks go out to...

  • Abbott Point of Care

  • Alere

  • BD

  • Beckman Coulter

  • Instrumentation Laboratory

  • MAS/RALS

  • NOVA Biomedical

  • Roche Diagnostics

  • Telcor

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