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Help us choose the winning video for the Lights, Camera, Action for Antibiotics Student Video Contest by voting for your favorite video! Participants were asked to produce a video on one of the following topics:
- What is Antibiotic Resistance?
- Preventing Infections: One Way to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
- Animals Get Sick, Too: Antibiotic Use in Animals
- Protecting Our Environment: Disposal of Antibiotics
View the five finalist videos and to cast your vote:
Lights, Camera, Action for Antibiotics Video Contest
You are able to vote as many times as you would like! Voting ends March 25, 2019. The top three videos will be recognized for their achievement at a ceremony to be held at the Minnesota Department of Health on April 3 at 6:00 p.m.
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The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) currently has a list of health care contacts known as The Compendium for acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, hemodialysis centers, and outpatient clinics.
The Compendium is utilized by MDH to:
- Send direct and/or targeted alerts or advisory messages in parallel to the Health Alert Network (HAN).
Please Note: The compendium does not serve as an alternative or replacement for HAN messages.
- Send periodic messages related to infectious disease and/or other notifications when the need arises. Examples of past messages sent included content on influenza, High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) resources and information on educational opportunities.
- Hear from industry partners about their needs and challenges through brief five-minute surveys.
MDH needs your help to expand the Compendium to include EMS. Please sign your service up by clicking on the link below and answering a few questions. It is recommended that each ambulance service provide a few contacts to ensure messages are received.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Compendium
Thank you for taking the time to share your contact information with us so we can be sure to send relevant information when the need arises.
For questions or concerns about the EMS Compendium, please contact health.hai@state.mn.us or 651-201-5414.
The Minnesota Department of Health Public Health Laboratory, Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) team, and healthcare-associated infections epidemiologists are planning no-cost, regional conferences. The interactive conferences will focus on intra-facility communication, and will provide a forum to discuss healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic resistance, and laboratory biosafety, including risk assessments.
Intended Audience: The intended audience is laboratory biosafety officers, infection preventionists (IP), laboratorians, and managers. Please forward to employees you would like to attend.
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Dates/Locations: The one-day conference will be offered:
- Thursday, April 4 – Metro Session #1 (Carpenter’s Union St. Paul)
- Friday, April 12 – Metro Session #2 (Carpenter’s Union St. Paul)
- Wednesday, April 17 – Marshall, MN (Avera Hospital)
- Wednesday, May 1 – Detroit Lakes, MN (Essentia Health)
- Thursday, May 9 – Rochester, MN (Mayo Clinic, Assisi Heights)
- Wednesday, May 22 – Alexandria, MN (Alomere Health)
- Wednesday, May 29 – Duluth, MN (St. Luke’s Hospital)
Register Now: Infection Preventionist Conference (choose only one event)
Questions: 651-201-5414 or health.hai@state.mn.us
The 2019 Minnesota Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference on May 13 will focus on patient and provider education. The conference will explore important topics including the social determinants of antibiotic prescribing, evidence-based recommendations and clinical practice guidelines that improve antibiotic utilization and patient outcomes, the role of communication skills to educate and inform patients, and more.
This conference is for health care providers, nurses, infection preventionists, administrators, dentists, pharmacists, public health professionals and others interested in becoming more involved in antibiotic stewardship and matters related to antibiotic resistance.
Registration for the conference is currently full. If you would like to join the waitlist, please send your name, email address, and organization affiliation to jkornberg@stratishealth.org. You will be contacted if space becomes available.
The 2019 National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Annual Training is a one-week event from March 25 - March 29, 2019, featuring presentations on the general changes for 2019 NHSN reporting.
All sessions will be available to view via live web-streaming starting on Monday, March 25, at 7:00 a.m. CDT. The instructions on how to view the webstream and PDFs of the agenda and CE information are posted on the CDC 2019 NHSN Annual Training website. No registration is required for web-streaming.
The training course is intended for infection preventionists and hospital epidemiologists using the Patient Safety Component and Outpatient Procedure Component, as well as staff from Health Innovation and Improvement Networks, Health Departments, and others interested in learning more about NHSN HAI surveillance.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), just launched a new Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training course. This specialized nursing home training is designed for individuals responsible for infection prevention and control (IPC) programs in nursing homes and covers:
- Core activities of effective IPC programs
- Recommended IPC practices to reduce:
- Pathogen transmission
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Antibiotic resistance
The course introduces and describes how to use IPC program implementation resources including policy and procedure templates, audit tools, and outbreak investigation tools. The release of this training course is designed to help facilities provide staff with the required specialized infection prevention and control training as it relates to the CMS Requirements for Participation for Nursing Homes.
The course contains 23 modules and sub-modules that can be completed in any order and over multiple sessions. Free CME, CNE, or CEUs are available upon completion of the course.
CDC TRAIN: Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting its first annual National Care Transitions Awareness (NCTA) Day on April 16, 2019! The goal is to increase awareness of the importance and value that safe and effective care transitions and care coordination have on the beneficiary and provider communities. Make this a day to raise awareness and promote action. Commit to one or more care transition activities.
Some examples include:
- Provide an educational webinar highlighting best practices to your organization, community partners, or other stakeholders
- Do a gap analysis of your current practices and commit to advancing your practices to the next level
- Provide a refresh on existing practices to your team and employees
- Reach out to existing community partners to further your partnership and improve care coordination
- Identify new community partners to expand resource options for patients
- Engage health IT partners to improve data transfer and communication to improve care transitions
- Patient engagement activities to improve care transitions
Interested in learning more about how to optimize your facility’s Legionella water management program?
CDC and partners have created a new, free online training including case studies, templates, and other practical resources. Learn more on the PreventLD Training CDC website.
Canadian researchers asked: Can Sharing Medication Vials with Clean Needles and Syringes Lead to Healthcare-associated HCV Outbreaks? Results presented at last fall’s meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists showed that even though providers used sterile needles and syringes, hepatitis C virus (HCV) pre-contamination on the vial diaphragm can be readily transferred into the medication vial.
This reinforces important One & Only Campaign and CDC recommendations about provider hand hygiene, dedicating multi-dose vials to one patient whenever possible, and adequately scrubbing the diaphragm on the medication vial for a proper amount of time before accessing it with a clean needle and clean syringe.
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