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| Title: | Environmental Cleaning and Disinfecting in Long-term Care Part II: Using the Required Performance Improvement Project (PIP) Framework to Improve Cleaning and Disinfecting |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. CDT |
| Intended Audience: | Long-term care facility staff |
| Description: | Keeping the healthcare environment clean and disinfected requires systems and a plan. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) new Mega Rule requires the use of Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) systems and plans. This webinar targets long-term care facility staff, and discusses how to use the required regulatory framework to develop an interdisciplinary cleaning and disinfecting model in long-term care programs. |
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| Presenter: | Deb Patterson Burdsall PhD, RN-BC, CIC, FAPIC |
| Link to recorded webinar: | http://webinars.apic.org/session.php?id=18836 Available through: 05/29/2018 |
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