Patient Safety Across the Continuum of Care

Multi-drug reistant organisms are a major challenge for healthcare organizations today. Whether we are dealing with MRSA, or drug resistant strains of C-diff, the care of these patients is expensive and time consuming, and can have a significant impact on morbitity and mortality. Controlling these organisms when patients move between different levels of care in the continuum is complicated by the lack of understanding and communication that often exists. While providers in a hospital setting would never dream of transferring a patient between one unit and another without giving the receiving unit a full report, the same is not true when patients are transferred to a nursing home from a hospital or vice-versa.

On Friday, November 13, 2009, I will be presenting about efforts to control the spread of multi-drup resistant organisms between hospitals and nursing facilities at the Patient Safety Across the Continuum of Care 2009 Conference sponsored by the Southeastern Pennslyvania Association for Healthcare Quality in Plymouth Meeting, PA. For more information about the conference, or to register, go to http://www.spahq.org. The focus of my presentation will be on building bridges of understanding and cooperation between care settings in the infection control arena, and several best practice examples will be presented.

If you are not able to attend this presentation and would like more information, or if your organization needs assistance with performance improvement in this area, you can contact me at joseph.tomaino@rsmi.com.

Continuing Care InSite is the blog of Joseph Tomaino, who assists his clients with smart approaches to improving continuing care organizations. He can be reached at jtomaino@continuingcareinsite.info

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Continuing Care InSite is the blog of Joseph Tomaino, who assists his clients with smart approaches to improving continuing care organizations. He can be reached at jtomaino@continuingcareinsite.info