The Partners Advisory Committee (PAC) members sponsor educational webinars to highlight different aspects of infection prevention and how their organizations are working towards them. The Leapfrog Group does not endorse the products, services, and/or technology showcased on these webinars, we encourage you to explore these offerings that support Leapfrog’s work. Please contact us with questions or for more information.
Hand Hygiene for the Whole Hospital: Health Care Workers, Patients (Especially Children), and Support Staff
December 11, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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Hand Hygiene For Healthcare Workers has seen significant investment but they only represent part of the Hospital Population. The Webinar will broaden the discussion to include support staff and patients with a particular emphasis on Children . Katie Laird refered to her recently published paper on Resources to Improve Hand Hygiene in Paediatric Patients. Brooke Hossfeld discussed her experience on the training and motivation of support staff around Hand Hygiene.
Protecting Healthcare Workers from Toilet Plume Containing Infectious Pathogens and Hazardous Drugs
November 20, 2024; 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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This informative webinar focused on safeguarding healthcare workers from the risks associated with toilet plume aerosols (TPAs) which can carry pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, C. difficile and hazardous drugs used in patients with cancer. TPAs pose significant risks as they can linger in the air and settle on surfaces. The information presented provides significant insight on risks associated with current facility designs as it relates to uncovered toilets.
The Enemy Within: How Mattresses Act as a Hidden 5th Column Undermining Patient Safety in Health Care Facilities
October 16, 2024; 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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In the last 10 years, the FDA and ECRI have issued multiple safety advisories about health care mattresses. But today mattresses – the # 1 patient touch point –are still a vulnerability in addressing patient safety. Healthcare regulatory bodies, including The Joint Commission, and the AMA have renewed focus this year on mattress reprocessing. This webinar examined the scope of this issue, its impact on patient safety, misperceptions driving sub-optimal cleanliness, and options to address mattress reprocessing.
Aligning Employee Experience to Culture of Patient Safety
June 20, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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Panelists from two large healthcare systems will discuss how their organizations have aligned employee experience to patient safety culture. They'll discuss internal research demonstrating a link between the two and the steps each organization took to demonstrate this link in a practical way for front-line leaders. They'll also share how they've used new tools and technology to measure, understand, and drive culture of safety.
From Chaos to Consistency: The Power of Standardizing Cleaning Protocols
May 15, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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Explore the benefits of standardization of chemicals, surveillance for transmittable infections, staff education, and infection prevention basis that apply to all areas to reduce the risk of infections. In this webinar, Sodexo Healthcare infection prevention specialist Brooke Hossfeld and EVS portfolio lead and Vice President Lisa Zierten will review methods of cleaning and disinfection throughout healthcare, to include acute care, ambulatory surgical centers, long-term acute care, skill nursing, rehab, and senior facilities. They will also discuss the role of surveillance and changes in regulatory requirements for prevention of healthcare and community-based infection and the importance of communication between staff and care sites and explore common themes of patient safety and staff engagement to drive better satisfaction results.
Elevate Your Hospital's Diabetes Care Program with Glycare
May 7, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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Care for people with diabetes in hospitals is an emerging priority across the nation, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services debut new glycemic management performance measures, and Leapfrog partnered with ADA to launch their Recognized Leader in Caring for People with Diabetes Program. These initiatives are aimed at addressing critical safety issues with this patient population that makes up 30% of all hospitalizations. Patients living with diabetes suffer from higher risks of complications in hospitals and higher costs.
Making Invisible Pathogens Visible: How To Prevent SSI’s Before They Occur
April 23, 2024; 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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Did you know that the Operating Room has over 300 potential transmission pathways every hour? Are you aware of the current performance of your OR in terms of Surgical Site Infections? Learn about a comprehensive, evidence-based solution to optimize your Infection Prevention processes, leading to actionable improvements in reducing HAI’s and enhancing performance metrics for your facility.
The Voice of Quality Care: The Patient Experience & Safety Connection
April 16, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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Healthcare is personal and safety is paramount; how we partner with patients to deliver high-quality care is more important than ever. In our complex healthcare systems, patients interact with a multitude of touchpoints along the healthcare continuum, and they possess the only first-hand knowledge of the experience of care being delivered to them. Consequently, their voice can be one of the best sources of information healthcare organizations can use to improve quality and safety.
With an ever-growing body of evidence that demonstrates the connection between positive elements of patient experience and both process of care measures and healthcare outcomes, patient experience has become integral and fundamental in the evaluation of the safe quality care being delivered today.
This webinar highlights those connections and discusses ways healthcare organizations can embrace patient experience to improve the care they deliver.
How to Identify High-Value Family-Forming Benefits
March 27, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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Family-forming benefits are increasingly recognized as a must-have for employers and employees. But how can benefit managers, CFOs, and company leaders know which benefits to implement? This presentation will discuss the innovative features necessary to choose a successful, high-value program that meets the needs of your company and your employees.
Fireside Chat on Patient Safety with Devin Jopp, CEO of APIC
February 27, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder sat down for a fireside chat with Devin Jopp, CEO of APIC—the largest network of infection preventionists. They discussed the future of patient safety, potential and realized national policy changes, and challenges ahead to identify problems and what our respective organizations’ plans are to address them.
Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring: Empowering Hospitals to Protect Patients and Healthcare Workers
February 22, 2024; 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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It is common knowledge that clean hands are the single most important factor in reducing the risk of cross contamination and Healthcare-associated Infections. Hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers remains low—less than 50% globally. Learn how electronic hand hygiene monitoring can help your organization monitor and improve outcomes through improving hand hygiene compliance.
Reenergize Your Nursing-Driven Patient Safety Strategies
November 16, 2023; 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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The pandemic has caused Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) to return to pre-affordable care act numbers. Healthcare facilities and systems are faced with empowering and educating their frontline staff to return to excellence, while dealing with burnout and a new nursing workforce. This webinar will highlight key challenges in the industry, how to leverage the right internal stakeholders, and how to use simple, evidence-based methodologies to enable staff to return to basics to drive zero harm.
Universal Nasal Decolonization: An Unexpected Solution to Hospital Staffing and Financial Concerns
October 3, 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
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Today’s healthcare leaders are wrestling with a variety of issues, with staffing shortages and financial concerns being at the forefront. While many are looking to the latest software or AI to help with these problems, some are embracing a simpler approach – universal nasal decolonization. This infection prevention strategy is helping to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and related readmissions.
Facilities employing evidence-based nasal decolonization can save hundreds of thousands of dollars in avoided uncompensated treatment cost and millions in additional revenue generated from increased capacity resulting from reduced lengths of stay. Learn what innovators are doing and the results they are reporting, with no capital expense and no software to buy or implement. Hear from two of the nation’s leading infection preventionists on how this work can improve financial outcomes and hospital staffing.
International Infection Prevention Experts Discuss Hand Hygiene
September 7, 2023; 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM ET
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Hand hygiene compliance is a key quality measure for infection prevention and control programs, patient safety, and quality of health services worldwide. It is one of the most simple and effective measures to reduce healthcare associated infections (HAIs). However, compliance rates are as low as 6% - 14% when assessed by both the WHO 5 moments and 6-step hand hygiene technique, and as much as 50% of avoidable infections are caused by poor hand hygiene.
This session examined how hand hygiene compliance is measured, real-world challenges of hand hygiene, trends and future developments including the new international standard for hand hygiene, and the role technology can play in helping hospitals achieve compliance of hand hygiene standards.
Safe Indoor Air: Top Experts Offer Advice For Future Pandemics
October 11, 2022; 1:00 PM- 2:00 PM ET
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Leapfrog is bringing together leading air quality and infectious disease experts to discuss engineering guidance for the reduction of infectious aerosol exposure for a webinar. Interventions will be discussed in the context of pandemic events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as opportunities for providing protective engineering design elements applicable to endemic diseases with infectious aerosol dissemination potential. Leapfrog President and CEO Leah Binder will moderate the conversation.
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This webinar series is a program of the Partners Advisory Committee. The Leapfrog Group does not endorse the products, services, and/or technology showcased on these webinars, we encourage you to explore these offerings that support Leapfrog’s work. |