This session will look at aged care facilities from top to bottom, identifying all the areas that require IPC consideration. Labelling these areas provides a foundation for an IPC aged care program. We will look at templates and resources to guide this process. The floor is open for comments, input and sharing ideas and concerns.

Join ACIPC IPC Consultant Carrie Spinks and our guest speaker Sarah Gaines Hill.

Sarah has been an RN for over 35 years and trained in the UK before moved to US in 1989. The majority of Sarah’s career has been in the acute care sector in California including 15 years in NICU, and the last 14 years in IPC. She also worked for Blue Cross Care in Victoria for four years.

She has facilitated many projects within the acute care sector for reducing healthcare-associated infections including a collaborative with the IHI to reduce patient readmissions from hospital-acquired pneumonia. The results of the project were presented at the national IHI conference in 2013. Sarah also partnered with Sutter Health in California on a research study for reducing healthcare associated pneumonia in the non-ventilated patient which was published in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC). She is an active member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Prevention and Control (APIC) and have presented posters of other project work at the national conferences.