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 July
2008---
Greetings Infection Preventionists,
I find it amazing
that the year is already half over, yet we have accomplished
quite a bit.
Welcome to all of
the new members who have joined us in 2008. We hope you enjoy
sunny Southern California. Please feel free to contact any of
us for help in getting settled and finding your way around.
Those of you who are new to the infection prevention field will
find that help is only a phone call or email away. Usually we
can respond right away, or within 24 hours. If the first person
your try doesn’t answer, maybe he/she is away for the day, try
someone else. Some of us aren’t into Blackberries yet!
We had a very successful
February seminar and are formulating plans for the 2009 event.
Contact Joan Finney to take an active role in the planning
process.
SB739 and CLIP are with us; SB
1058 and SB159 are moving along. Keep up with them from our
website. Then nationally we have the Healthy Hospitals Act of
2007, the CHAIR Act, the MRSA Infection Prevention and Patient
Protection Act and the MRSA Research and Study Act. Keep up
with those on APIC’s national website.
Your Board of Directors is
working on Standing Rules to help define in writing things we
have been doing “because its always been done that way” but
hasn’t been written anywhere. This will make it easier for new
members to see how the Chapter operates.
The 35th Annual
Educational Conference & International Meeting in Denver was a
great success with 3968 attendees. The Education Committee
needs more members, why not you? Those who attended the sessions
have a great deal to share with us.
We
are Infection Preventionists, Spreading Knowledge…Preventing
Infection. APIC is an organization of Infection Preventionists
who develop and direct infection prevention programs that save
lives and improve the bottom line for health care facilities and
public health agencies. We may never eliminate infection
entirely, yet working together – Infection Preventionists,
physicians, hospital administrators and the public – we have the
potential to approach zero by pursuing perfection. From
“Branding of APIC, Vision 2012”
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