2022 Meetings and Programs
Normal - pre-COVID meeting info:
APIC Greater NY Chapter 13 convenes on the 3rd Wednesday of each month (except July and August) at Lenox Hill Hospital, in the Theater Room - 2nd Floor, 130 East 77th Street, New York, NY 10075.
1:30 pm Board of Directors Meeting (for board members)
2:00 pm Education Program (open to all, members & guests)
3:30 pm Membership Meeting (open to all, members & guests)
APIC Greater NY Chapter 13 convenes on the 3rd Wednesday of each month (except July and August) at Lenox Hill Hospital, in the Theater Room - 2nd Floor, 130 East 77th Street, New York, NY 10075.
1:30 pm Board of Directors Meeting (for board members)
2:00 pm Education Program (open to all, members & guests)
3:30 pm Membership Meeting (open to all, members & guests)
Chapter Meeting Journal Club Resource:
For a blank copy of our chapter's Journal Club Evaluation Tool, click here.
2022 Meeting Dates
December 14, 2022 - Thank you to our chapter's Infection Prevention Champion, Antonella Eramo MS CIC for sharing your wonderful presentation on your experiences and reflections on your career work - and congratulations on your retirement! Thank you, too, to our chapter members who gave excellent talks on Ambulatory Care IPC.
• Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Quad A Survey Readiness by Ella Berroya MBA MSN RN, Northwell Health Physician Partners
• NYULH Ambulatory IPC, Faith Skeete MSN RN CIC FAPIC, Ambulatory IPC Director, NYU Langone Health
• Supporting Ambulatory: Virtual Rounding, Caroline Donovan, Infection Preventionist, Alex Grizas, AVP Infection Prevention, & Jenna Rizzo, Infection Preventionist, Hospital for Special Surgery
• Dialysis in the Outpatient Setting at Mount Sinai Hospital, Leah Shayer MPH CIC, Melanie Altar MS RN CNL, Mount Sinai Hospital
November 16, 2022 - Thank you to Peggy O'Flynn RN CIC from the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, one chapter's Sherry Chisholm support recipients sharing about her experiences at the June 2022 APIC 2022 national conference. Thank you, too to Mary Heffernan RN DNP CIC, Ambulatory Director for IPC with Northwell Health for your exciting presentation on Infection Prevention & Control the Ambulatory Care Setting.
October 27, 2022
Annual Conference - Infection Prevention and Control: Staying Focused While Managing the Unexpected
Co-sponsored with APIC Long Island Chapter 38
Thank you to our fabulous speakers who made our conference a very special time of learning. And thank you for allowing us to share your slides with our audience. We also say a huge thank you to our wonderful group of more than 160 participants who shared the day with us from 12 states across the US. You can still download the conference flyer here. Slide decks are below.
Welcome from National APIC President Linda Dickey RN MPH CIC FAPIC
Antibiotic Stewardship - George Rodriguez PharmD BCIDP (click here to watch the video file)
Microbiology - Amy Mathers MD D(AABMM) (click here to watch the video file)
Surveyor Survival - Captain Hyosim Seon-Spada DNP RN FNP-BC CIC (click here to watch the video file)
Long Term Care Breakout Session 1 - Russell Grant BS MT CIC (no video file available)
Long Term Care Breakout Session 2 - Amanda Bacon RN BSN (no video file available)
Acute/Ambulatory Breakout Session 1 - Jacqueline Daley HBSc MLT CIC CSPDS FAPIC (no video file available)
Acute/Ambulatory Breakout Session 2 - Anne Mattern BSN RN CNORe CIC (no video file available)
ICRA 2.0/Water Management - Mary Angela Cole RN MSN CIC CJCP (no video file available)
Late Breaker from NYCDOH - William Greendyke MD (click here to watch the video file)
October 19, 2022 - regular chapter meeting was not held. Instead we had our annual conference.
September 21, 2022 - Thank you to each of our chapter members who shared at the meeting. We had national APIC conference presentations by our Chisholm Support winners:
Karen Brody MSN RN CIC, Mount Sinai Brooklyn
Karina Albuquerque MSN RN CIC, Elmhurst Hospital
Rodolfo Simons CIC, Mount Sinai Hospital
Suraiya Jahan ECFMG CIC, Metropolitan Hospital
We also had our APIC 50th Anniversary Presentation by Emily Walits MPH CIC Mount Sinai Hospital and Marie Moss MPH RN CIC Mount Sinai Beth Israel. We also celebrated APIC's anniversary by watching the presentation given by Janet Haas, immediate past national APIC president (and APIC Greater NY chapter 13 member) give her remarks at the APIC 2022 conference when she received the Carol DeMille Award for lifetime accomplishments in Infection Prevention & Control.
July & August 2022 - no meetings (summer vacation)
June 29, 2022 - This program was the third in a three-part series where we learn about maintaining the OR environment, SSI prevention, and then several chapter members will present on how they manage their OR environments and do SSI surveillance. Thank you to each of our participants who presented their facilities' experiences with managing the OR environment and/or tracking and preventing surgical site infections. Thank you to Krystal Balzer RN MSN CIC & Patrice Russell RN MSN CIC from New York Presbyterian Hospital, Carmel Boland-Reardon RN CIC and Sandra R. Hyman MPA RN CIC FAPIC from Montefiore - Einstein Campus, Kalani Thaler MPH CIC, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Antonella Eramo MS CIC, Regional Representative HAI Reporting Program, NYSDOH.
May 18, 2022 - Thank you to Jacqueline Daley HBSc, MLT, CIC, CSPDS, FAPIC, Southern California Regional Director Infection Prevention, Providence Health Services, Irvine, California, for your presentation SSI Prevention: The Power is in the Bundle. Thank you, too, to Sage and representative Rachel Donohue for making the presentation possible.
April 20, 2022 - Thank you to Maureen Spencer RN M.Ed. CIC, Infection Prevention Consultant, Aerobiotix Inc. for your presentation on Air Quality: An Infection Prevention Imperative. This program will be the first in a three-part series where we next look at SSIs, and then in June 2022, have chapter members present on how they manage the OR environment and do SSI surveillance.
March 16, 2022 - - We had a series of presentations by members of our chapter covering Hand Hygiene Practices, data collection, and data analysis. We say a BIG thank you to Alex Grizas at Hospital for Special Surgery, Mary O'Keefe at Maimonides Medical Center, Marisa Robles at Mount Sinai - Queens, and Briana Episcopia and Mary Fornek at NYCHHC for their excellent presentations.
February 16, 2022 - Thank you to Linda Homan RN BSN CIC, Senior Manager, Clinical Affairs for Ecolab for your excellent presentation In Pursuit of Clean Hands – How the Leapfrog Group, WHO, CDC, and Regulatory Agencies Are Shaping the Future of Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring in Healthcare.
January 19, 2022 - Thank you to Lorrie Calabrese BSN RN CNOR GTS CCSVP, Clinical Surgical Consultant for Molnlycke Co., who shared her excellent presentation New Perspectives in CHG Bathing: Beyond the ICU. Thank you, too Molnlycke for offering CE credit for this program, too.
Upcoming Meeting Dates in 2022
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WILL BE HELD ONLINE from 2:00 - 3:00 PM. We will have sharing about the June 2022 APIC 2022 national conference by our chapter's Sherry Chisholm support recipients and a look at APIC's 50th year celebrations. We will also watch past national APIC chapter president (and Greater NY Chapter 13 member) Janet Haas's address at the APIC 2022 conference when she received the Carol DeMille award for lifetime accomplishments in Infection Prevention & Control.
To join the meeting by WebEx - click this link. You may also listen to the presentation by phone: dial 855-698-2663, then use meeting number # 2424 791 7988 -- password: 12345.
Call rules:
DO MUTE YOUR PHONE (unless asking a question/making a comment for the group)
DO NOT put your phone on hold
Following the meeting, we will continue our WebEx session and have Kyle Willey's CIC review session.