This presentation was one of sixteen presentations given at the 2016 Infection Prevention Strategies for Ambulatory Surgery Centers conference in Las Vegas. Cathy and Marcia spend one and half hour presenting the trends that are seeing in terms of ASC deficiencies relating to infection control. Over half of this presentation was devoted to taking questions from the large live audience.
Viewing time: 89 minutes; This presentation is worth 1.5 Contact Hour of continuing Education1
PRESENTER: CATHY MONTGOMERY, RN, CASC - PRESIDENT OF EXCELLENTIA ADVISORY GROUP, A.A.A.A.S.F. SURVEYOR
Cathy has over 20 years of experience in healthcare services management. During her position as Regional Manager for Barnes Hospital, Cathy oversaw several physician practices. As Regional Administrator for Novamed, she oversaw operations of the physician practices, as well as the ambulatory surgery centers and optical shops in the Metro St. Louis and Illinois areas. Under her direction, a state-of-the-art refractive surgery center was also designed and opened in St. Louis, MO.
Cathy is Founder and President of Excellentia Advisory Group, a consulting and development company serving both the surgical industry through ASC’s as well as surgical hospitals and office-based surgical practices. Cathy’s passion has been teaching compliance to CMS Conditions of Coverage, AAAHC accreditation, and assisting ASCs with their survey readiness.
Marcia offers consulting on a wide variety of infection prevention issues as well as teaching for APIC, the Association of Professionals in Infection Control, Inc. Marcia served on the Board of Directors for APIC 2009- 2012. I am board certified in Infection Control, 1983-2013. Marcia has 30 years of experience in all aspects of infection prevention and control in hospitals and ambulatory settings. She is a new surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.
Marcia's interests include implementation of the CMS Ambulatory Surgery requirements; injection safety; cleaning, disinfection and sterilization in the outpatient setting; establishing an ambulatory infection control program and mentoring. I also am interested in all aspects of hospital infection control and have many years of experience in program development, surveillance, outbreak investigation, infection reduction, education and regulatory compliance.
DESCRIPTION:
This presentation was one of sixteen presentations given at the 2016 Infection Prevention Strategies for Ambulatory Surgery Centers conference in Las Vegas. Cathy and Marcia spend one and half hour presenting the trends that are seeing in terms of ASC deficiencies relating to infection control. Over half of this presentation was devoted to taking questions from the large live audience.
Viewing time: 89 minutes; This presentation is worth 1.5 Contact Hour of continuing Education1
PRICE: $139.00 / User email & password
This view-upon-demand purchase is good for 90-days and can be viewed unlimited times by you and your whole staff at your facility only using the user's email and password. User email & password should not be shared with other facilities which could result in the original user being suspended.
Once you and any/all staff have reviewed this presentation, you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Participation worth 1.0 Credit Hour of continuing education. You simply contact us at events@excellentiagroup.com requesting your certificates, using the Certificate Request Form found in the link below. You will need to provide a typed list of all participants first and last names, position title (RN ,BSN, etc.), license numbers (if professionals) and date of completion.
1 Excellentia Advisory Group LLC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP 15481: Issue Date: 4/6/2010;
