Session 1: Infection Prevention in Ambulatory Settings: A Focus on the Environment
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Topics covered:
- Infectious Risks in Ambulatory Practice
- Hand Hygiene: Inpatient versus Ambulatory
- Managing Construction & Renovations
- Infection Control Risk Assessment
- Water Risk Assessment & Actions
- Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection
- Human Microbiome & Built Environment
- Surface Contamination & Infections
- Environmental Cleaning: Hospital v. Ambulatory
- Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand environmental risks for contamination and transmission of microbial pathogens in the ambulatory care environment
- Understand how water and surfaces may pose a risk for infections and how to mitigate those risks
- Understand the importance of hand hygiene and how compliance with hand hygiene may be improved in the ambulatory care environment
FACULTY
Richard Martinello, MD
Medical Director of Infection Prevention
Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health System
Dr. Martinello is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. He is board certified in adult and pediatric infectious diseases and completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and fellowships in adult and pediatric infectious diseases and healthcare epidemiology at Yale
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