About this Event
Ready Before It Happens!
Strengthening Preparedness in Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes
Being prepared can make all the difference when an outbreak or unexpected event occurs.
Join us for an engaging in-service focused on practical strategies to strengthen preparedness and response in long-term care and retirement homes. Sessions will cover outbreak management, enteric illness preparedness, infection prevention and control considerations during construction and renovation, and lessons to help teams respond confidently when the unexpected happens.
This event is intended for management and frontline staff working in long-term care and retirement homes, as well as hospital-based infection prevention and control professionals.
If multiple staff members from your facility will be attending, please ensure each staff member completes the registration form separately.
Important Note: Where applicable, 3 IPU credits will be awarded upon course completion and included on the course certificate.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
Welcome, Land Acknowledgment, Housekeeping
🕑: 09:10 AM - 09:20 AM
Medical Officer of Health Welcome
🕑: 09:20 AM - 09:35 AM
Preparing for the Fall: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Update
🕑: 09:35 AM - 09:45 AM
Staying Ready: Public Health Outbreak Management Update
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Ready for Norovirus: Practical GI Outbreak Preparedness and Response
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:20 AM
Q&A + Evaluation
🕑: 10:20 AM - 10:35 AM
Break
🕑: 10:35 AM - 11:15 AM
IPAC in CRMD - Congregate Living Settings
Info: Construction, Renovation, Maintenance and Design (CRMD)
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:20 AM
Q&A / Discussion / Evaluation
🕑: 11:20 AM - 11:50 AM
When Plans Change: Responding to IPAC & Environment Health Risks During CRMD
Info: An interactive PHN and PHI-led discussion using realistic scenarios to explore infection risks, environmental health hazards, immediate response actions, escalation and the application of the ICRA.
🕑: 11:50 AM - 11:55 AM
Ready Before It Happens: Kay Takeaways and Next Steps
🕑: 11:55 AM - 12:00 PM
Wrap up - Evaluation and Closing
Event venue & nearby stays
Niagara Region Public Health, 1815 Sir Isaac Brock Way, Thorold, Canada
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