Center News & Events Archive
Presentation: Sepsis Alliance AMR Conference, April 2024
Mary Lou Manning presented “The CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship and Sepsis Programs: What Nurses Need to Know and Do” Retrieve at Sepsis Alliance Institute: Sepsis Alliance AMR Conference 2024.
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week
This year’s theme is “Improve Antibiotic Use, Improve Health Equity.” Findings from Health Equity and Antibiotic Prescribing in the United States: A Systematic Scoping Review showed clinician antibiotic prescribing behavior varied by patient and clinician characteristics, such as patient’s race and ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, and healthcare setting. These findings further emphasize the importance of integrating health equity into antibiotic stewardship policies, practices, and research.
International Infection Prevention & Control Week
International Infection Prevention and Control (IIPC) Week is held during the third week of October each year to highlight the importance of preventing infections. The theme for IIPC Week 2023 is Celebrating the Fundamentals of Infection Prevention. IIPC Week aims to promote better infection prevention and control practices in health care and to recognize the efforts of all healthcare workers to reduce the risk of infection in health services.
September Disease Prevention & Control Summit
Dr. Mary Lou Manning shares her expertise in “Fireside chat: Pharmacists and IPs for AMR Stewardship” at World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress, convened at Pennsylvania Convention Center on September 7th, 2023.
September is National Sepsis Awareness Month
In 2011, Sepsis Alliance declared September to be Sepsis Awareness Month, an annual opportunity for individuals, healthcare professionals, and organizations big and small to help save lives by raising awareness of the leading cause of deaths in U.S. hospitals – sepsis. Sepsis, which was often called “blood poisoning,” is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection which can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. At least 1.7 million adults in America develop sepsis. At least 350,000 adults who develop sepsis die during their hospitalization or are discharged to hospice. Sepsis kills 350,000 adults each year in the United States. Tap these resources to learn more.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month
Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century and are estimated to save 2–3 million lives each year. They have successfully eradicated smallpox and have greatly reduced the incidence of several major diseases such as polio and measles. National Immunization Awareness Month is an annual observation held in August to highlight the importance of routine vaccination for people of all ages. Tap these resources to explore the history of vaccination and have a look at current and future vaccines.
Michael Bell, MD, Deputy Director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
On October 21, 2022, CIPAS and the Jefferson College of Nursing hosted their first joint Visiting Scholar Event. The topic was Project Firstline: Infection Control Training Implication for Nursing Education and Clinical Practice, with Dr. Michael Bell. This presentation described Project Firstline, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Training Collaborative for Healthcare Infection Control. This new training program, created in collaboration with many partner organizations including the American Nurses Association, provides front line health care workers, health profession students, and members of the public health workforce the infection control training they need to protect patients, communities, and the nation from infectious disease threats.