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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leeds/Grenville—BGH staff earned presentation space at the national Community and Hospital Infection Control Association (CHICA) Annual Conference held in Toronto May 29 to June 2. Dana Finnegan-Yee, BGH Infection Control Coordinator, and Catherine Thorp, BGH Medical Laboratory Technologist, hosted a poster display that explained the hospital’s successful containment and eradication of the VRE outbreak in the hospital last year. “The CHICA convention was an excellent educational opportunity,” says Finnegan-Yee, “and we were fortunate to have the support from our organization to attend.” Invited to make a 10-minute oral presentation on a new regional information system was Sue Schaub, BGH Medical Laboratory Technologist and Laboratory Information Systems Specialist. BGH partnered with the Southeastern Ontario Infection Control Network and four other hospitals in the region to create RICS—a Regional Infection Control System for tracking hospital acquired infections. “The purpose of the regional software is to give Infection Control (IC) professionals a tool to help in identifying outbreaks, tracking ARO infections, and tracking patient admissions throughout the region to identify any IC issues,” explains Schaub. “RICS will provide a common reporting platform to use for ministry reports and reports that are presented at regular hospital IC meetings--allowing the regional infection control network to compare and collect data form all sites in the region.”
Dana Finnegan-Yee (left), BGH Infection Control Coordinator, and Catherine Thorp, BGH Medical Laboratory Technologist, show the poster that won display space at the national CHICA convention in Toronto. For more information, please contact:
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