Bryan Connors to present A Cross-functional Water Infection Control Risk Assessment at Annual ICPSNE Conference

Beyond the Single Lens: A Cross-functional Water Infection Control Risk Assessment

Healthcare infection control practitioners will learn how to apply a cross-functional approach to tailor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) WICRA tool to examine hospital water systems from the source to endpoints. This approach improves the accuracy and outcome of the risk assessment and scoring, allowing teams to prioritize control measures based on the likely impact to patient care areas and end-use devices.

Join EH&E at The Infection Control Professionals of Southern New England (ICPSNE) conference on November 22, where Bryan Connors will address how a single-discipline approach to water system infection control can result in incomplete risk assessments that can compromise patient safety and waste valuable resources by under or overestimating risk.

Bryan will discuss how collaboration between infection prevention teams, facilities, and water management experts helps to better understand the complexities of water systems and address infection risks more effectively. Bryan will delve into water systems, subsystems, and components, including incoming water, treatment/filtration, hot and cold-water systems, reverse osmosis systems, cross-connects, distribution systems, and end-use outlets.  He will also address key point-of-use locations, including reprocessing equipment, ice machines, medical equipment, and dialysis machines.

Presenter:

Bryan Connors, MS, CIH, HEM
Managing Principal Consultant, Healthcare
Environmental Health & Engineering

Annual ICPSNE Conference

November 22, 2024, 2:15 – 3:15 PM
Warwick, RI