July 31, 2019

Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs at the CDC attends HMS July 2019 Collaborative Wide Meeting

Arjun Srinivasan, MD (CAPT, USPHS) Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presented at the July 31, 2019 collaborative-wide meeting. His talk was entitled, "An Update on National Stewardship Activities 2019." The afternoon session focused on leveraging health care systems to improve quality of care. We had a panel discussion with representation from 6 systems across the HMS collaborative to discuss facilitators and barriers to scaling quality improvement across multiple hospitals. Below is the list of panelists:

• Arjun Srinivasan, MD (CAPT, USPHS)
Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
• Leslie Jurecko, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President, Quality, Safety and Patient Experience, Spectrum Health System
• Michael McKenna, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, McLaren Health Care
• Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH
VP, Quality & Clinical Integration, Ascension Healthcare
• Sam Flanders, MD, FAAP
Chief Quality & Patient Safety Officer, Beaumont Health
• Steven Bernstein, MD, MPH
Chief Quality Officer at Michigan Medicine
• Anurag Malani, MD
Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship & Infection Prevention for St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, St. Joseph Mercy Livingston & St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea

This meeting also provided HMS a chance to thank all the abstractors at each participating hospital for their hard work and dedication during an abstractor appreciation breakfast.