73 - It's Not Easy Being Green: Infection Prevention Meets Environmental Sustainability: Making Sense of Now and the Future

Speaker(s)

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  Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN-BC, PHN

  Member Engagement Manager
  Practice Greenhealth
  La Crescent, Minnesota

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Preeti Mehrotra, MD MPH

  Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, Medical Director Infection Prevention and Control
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  Boston, Massachusetts

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Katie Wickman, MS, RN, CIC

  Sustainability Manager
  Advocate Aurora Health

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit

No CPE Credits

Learning Objectives:

• describe challenges that environmental sustainability efforts pose to hospital infection control and discuss strategies for managing these challenges
• provide practical tools and resources that U.S. hospitals can use to reduce their environmental footprint, with a focus on infection prevention and control
• discuss the experience of one health system in working towards and maintaining environmental sustainability

Presentations:

• 4:15pm – 4:35pm EDT

  Hospital Infection Control and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities
  Preeti Mehrotra, MD MPH – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• 4:35pm – 4:55pm EDT

  U.S. Hospitals Reducing Their Environmental Footprint: Practical Approaches for Large-scale Change
  Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN-BC, PHN – Practice Greenhealth
• 4:55pm – 5:15pm EDT

  Getting Green and Staying Green: One Health System's Experience
  Katie Wickman, MS, RN, CIC – Advocate Aurora Health