Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections

Date: Friday March 24, 2017
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST
Hosted by: The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Join ODPHP and partners for a webinar on the updated targets and measures for health care-associated infections in acute care hospitals. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about efforts by federal health agencies to prevent health care-associated infections.

Speakers

• Don Wright, MD, MPH, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS
• Rosie Bartel, Patient Advocate, Patient & Family Centered Care (PFCCpartners)
• Denise Cardo, MD, Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Melissa Miller, BSN, MD, MS, Medical Officer, Division of Healthcare-Associated Infections, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (AHRQ)
• Jade Perdue, MPA, Director, Division of Quality Improvement Innovation Models Testing, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Clydette Powell, MD, MPH, FAAP, Director, Division of Health Care Quality, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, HHS
• Pamela Owens, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, AHRQ