Webinar for Outpatient Oncology Providers

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Doctors and nurses who care for cancer patients can take steps to help prevent infections. Join us for a free webinar featuring experts from CDC and other organizations. This webinar is a must-attend for every doctor, nurse, and health care provider who works with cancer patients. The webinar will—

Help doctors make sure their clinic is following recommended infection control standards to reduce their patients' risk of getting infections.
Feature new information and tools that providers can use to help prevent infections.

Webinar: Infection Control and Prevention in Outpatient Oncology Clinics
Monday, September 24, 2012, 1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT

More Information about Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients

WEBINAR: Infection

Control and Prevention in Outpatient Oncology Clinics

Monday, September 24th
1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT
Register at no cost
You unknowingly may be exposing your patients to the risk of dangerous and expensive infections. For example, unsafe injection practices in outpatient oncology settings have resulted in numerous outbreaks of hepatitis and bloodstream infections.
Please join us for a webinar to learn what you can do to ensure that your clinic is:

following recommended infection control and related standards, and
helping patients reduce their overall risk for infection.

Experts from CDC and other leaders in the field will discuss:

new information and tools available to help you protect your
patients from preventable infections, and
legal issues that address patient and healthcare worker safety.

AGENDA

	Joseph Perz, DrPH, MA, Prevention Team Leader for the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will provide an overview of infection control challenges in outpatient oncology clinics.
	Alice Guh, MD, MPH, Medical Officer for the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will discuss CDC’s Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient Settings.
	Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH, Medical Officer and Associate Director for Science, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will talk about CDC’s newest resource for cancer patients, caregivers and providers-an interactive, educational web site that provides individually tailored information on preventing infections in cancer patients, www.PreventCancerInfections.org
	Evelyn McKnight, AuD, Founder of HONOReform and co-author of A Never Event: Exposing the Largest Outbreak of Hepatitis C in American Healthcare History, will talk about her personal experience as a result of breaches in infection control in an outpatient oncology clinic.
	Russ Nassof, Esq, Author of Healthcare Consolidation: Is there a lack of “Healthcare Worker Safety” in Numbers, will lead a discussion on the legal issues that can surround patient and healthcare worker safety issues particularly in the sub-acute care arena which has been a primary target of the recent rush to merge healthcare delivery providers.

Question and Answer Session moderated by Dr. Perz