The Current State of Sepsis Quality Improvement and Where It Is Headed
Includes a Live Web Event on 01/16/2025 at 12:00 PM (PST)
Description:
Date: January 16, 2025
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
During this webinar, the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion will review how CDC is working with partner organizations across the nation to advance and support continuous sepsis quality improvement work and outcomes.
Attendees will gain valuable insights into upcoming CMS and CDC-developed measures that will deliver actionable data, enhancing hospitals' ability to provide effective care for patients with sepsis.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the activity, the learner should be able to:
- Identify how CDC is working with partners to advance sepsis quality improvement and how these strategies could be applied to advance sepsis quality improvement at their own organization.
- Describe how forthcoming CMS and CDC-developed measures will provide insight and actionable data on how hospitals are able to care for patients with sepsis.
Target Audience:
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Webinar Supporters:
Sepsis Alliance gratefully acknowledges the support provided for this webinar by the Sepsis Alliance Institute sponsors.
Michael Bell, MD
Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Michael Bell, MD, is the Director of National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP). He served as Deputy Director of DHQP from 2010 to 2023 before being selected as Acting Director and ultimately Director in 2024.
DHQP promotes the protection of patients and healthcare personnel and improvements in the safety and quality of health care. Examples of activities include producing guidelines for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAI), programs for combating antimicrobial resistance (AR), and improvements in basic safe medical practices such as safe injections.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068 for 1.2 contact hours.
Other healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance for 1.0 contact hour.
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