C. difficile Prevention Partnership Workshop

November 15, 2011

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Massachusetts CDI Prevention Collaboratives

Paula Griswold, MA Coalition for the Prevention of Medical ErrorsHelen Magliozzi, Massachusetts Senior Care Foundation

2007-2009 DPH, Coalition Infection Prevention in Hospitals

2009-2011 CDC, DPH, Coalition, Masspro C. difficile Infection Prevention in Hospitals

2009 – now DPH, Coalition, MHA, MMS, Masspro, et al. STAAR -State Action on Avoidable

Rehospitalizations2011- July 2012 CDC, DPH, Coalition, Mass Senior Care, Masspro

C. difficile Infection Prevention Partnership in hospitals and skilled nursing

facilities

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Program ObjectivesList two strategies that hospital teams completing the

2 year Collaborative used to prevent transmission of C. difficile in their organizations.

Describe one process from hospital teams about their experience on how you can engage front-line staff as active participants in improving and sustaining optimal infection control practices.

List three optimal prevention practices for long term care facilities, and how these differ from acute care hospitals.

Establish a working relationship during this program and over the next month with your partner organizations to develop a plan to engage your front-line staff in testing and spreading good infection prevention practice in your home organizations, and improving communications across the continuum of care.

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C. Difficile Prevention Partnership Collaborative: Bringing Together

Hospitals & Skilled Nursing Facilities

Sharon Benjamin, PhDsharon@sharonbenjamin.com

For the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors

www.macoalition.org

Objectives for the day (S. Benjamin)

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The purpose of my work today is to: Demonstrate, discuss, teach and support the adoption of change strategies that incorporate proven, new methods and techniques to accelerate successful change initiatives. Provoke thoughtful discussion around approaches for sustaining change momentum in individual facilities. Elicit enthusiastic participation moving beyond infection control experts

Spontaneous & Speedy Networking

Find someone you don’t know.

Introduce yourself.

Each person take 1 minute to answer the following:1. The reason my facility is involved today

is……………..2. I hope that I leave today with…………………….

Change partners when the bell sounds

Design for the Collaborative Work We’re Doing

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Based on experiential learning with a minimal amount of “telling” and a maximum of self-discovery New techniques and methods introduced and woven in for you to learn and use Application to your challengesWe seek to draw out and build on the direct experience of you and everyone in the roomWe will search for the minimum structure to liberate the maximum innovation

Problems & Opportunities Awareness Iceberg

4% known to top9% known to middle

74% known to supervisors

100% known to the front line & patients

Adapted from study conducted by Sidney Yoshida,initially presented at the International QualitySymposium