1. C. difficile Prevention Partnership Workshop
November 15, 2011

2. Massachusetts CDI Prevention Collaboratives
Paula Griswold, MA Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors Helen Magliozzi, Massachusetts Senior Care Foundation DPH, Coalition Infection Prevention in Hospitals CDC, DPH, Coalition, Masspro C. difficile Infection Prevention in Hospitals 2009 – now DPH, Coalition, MHA, MMS, Masspro, et al. STAAR -State Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations July 2012 CDC, DPH, Coalition, Mass Senior Care, Masspro C. difficile Infection Prevention Partnership in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities

3. Program Objectives
List two strategies that hospital teams completing the 2 year Collaborative used to prevent transmission of C. difficile in their organizations.
Describe one process from hospital teams about their experience on how you can engage front-line staff as active participants in improving and sustaining optimal infection control practices.
List three optimal prevention practices for long term care facilities, and how these differ from acute care hospitals.
Establish a working relationship during this program and over the next month with your partner organizations to develop a plan to engage your front-line staff in testing and spreading good infection prevention practice in your home organizations, and improving communications across the continuum of care.

4. Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
C. Difficile Prevention Partnership Collaborative: Bringing Together Hospitals & Skilled Nursing Facilities
Sharon Benjamin, PhD
For the
Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors

5. Objectives for the day (S. Benjamin)
The purpose of my work today is to:
Demonstrate, discuss, teach and support the adoption of change strategies that incorporate proven, new methods and techniques to accelerate successful change initiatives.
Provoke thoughtful discussion around approaches for sustaining change momentum in individual facilities.
Elicit enthusiastic participation moving beyond infection control experts

6. Spontaneous & Speedy Networking
Find someone you don’t know.
Introduce yourself.
Each person take 1 minute to answer the following:
The reason my facility is involved today is……………..
I hope that I leave today with…………………….
Change partners when the bell sounds

7. Design for the Collaborative Work We’re Doing
Based on experiential learning with a minimal amount of “telling” and a maximum of self-discovery
New techniques and methods introduced and woven in for you to learn and use
Application to your challenges
We seek to draw out and build on the direct experience of you and everyone in the room
We will search for the minimum structure to liberate the maximum innovation

8. Problems & Opportunities Awareness Iceberg
4% known to
top
9% known to
middle
74% known to
supervisors
100% known to
the front line
& patients
Adapted from study conducted by Sidney Yoshida,
initially presented at the International Quality
Symposium