February PS APIC Meeting

• Meeting open to members and non-members at no cost
• Lunch provided (at no cost)
• The educational topic for our February meeting is 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19).  This is a last minute topic change.  With this emerging issue very much on the minds of our IP community, we opted to shift our educational topic to COVID-19.
• Please share this invite with your healthcare and public health colleagues

PRESENTERS: 

Sara Podczervinski, RN, MPH, CIC, FAPIC

Patty Montgomery, RN, MPH, CIC

Washington State Department of Health

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All participants at the Chapter Meeting – Come with questions and any resources that you have developed

EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION TOPIC: 

COVID-19:  Role of the Infection Preventionist (IP)

The Washington State Department of Health will provide brief updates on COVID-19.  The majority of the time will be dedicated to discussion and Q & A from all meeting participants so that we can better understand infection preventionists’ evolving role in preventing and managing COVID-19.  Please come prepared to share learnings and resources from your organization.  We can all learn from one another in these the challenging times!

Vendor Sponsor:

LOCATION:

WA Department of Health, Kent Regional Office

20425 72nd Avenue South, Building 2

3^rd floor/Room 309

Kent, WA 98032

DRIVING DIRECTIONS:  https://www.doh.wa.gov/AboutUs/BusinessHoursandLocations/Kent

PARKING:  There is free visitor parking in the parking lot.

For those of you that cannot attend in person, feel free to attend via Zoom WEBINAR:

Webinar access:  https://zoom.us/j/724347154

Meeting ID: 724 347 154

To Call-in to the webinar audio:  (669) 900-6833

Contact me with questions at sara.podczervinski@doh.wa.gov   or 206.418.5519