NEWS RELEASE
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"Being Prepared for the H1N1 Pandemic": Free JCR Videoconference Highlights What Hospitals Need to Know
| (OAK BROOK, Ill. - September 17, 2009) Hospitals and communities across the country are preparing to battle the H1N1 Flu this fall. To help in this effort, Joint Commission Resources Quality and Safety Network (JCRQSN), has developed an educational videoconference and webinar about H1N1 for hospitals. JCRQSN is a satellite video and Web-based educational service available by subscription to health care organizations. This program is being offered free to hospitals.
"Being Prepared for the H1N1 Pandemic," will be broadcast live on September 24 from 2pm to 3pm ET. The program uses the real world experience of one hospital and is designed to help health care organizations be ready for what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns is the possibility of increased hospitalizations and deaths this fall and winter during the traditional influenza season.
This 60-minute program by JCR, a not-for-profit affiliate of The Joint Commission, will examine the successful response of Long Island Jewish Medical Center to the May influx of the H1N1 virus in New York. Both the hospital's experience and program faculty will highlight what hospitals need to know to effectively prepare for an influx of H1N1 patients and patients who think they may have the virus. The program will also include a mock survey that shows how a hospital describes its response plans for an influx of infectious patients as part of The Joint Commission system tracer.
Expert presenters include Lewis Soloff, M.D., Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Joint Commission Surveyor, and Tom Sizemore III, M.D., principal deputy director, Office of Preparedness & Emergency Operations, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
For more information or to register, please call MCN Customer Service at 1-800-538-6264 to request the program: Being Prepared for the H1N1 Pandemic, or visit http://www.mcnhealthcare.com/index.php?act=jcrqsn_request&preview to schedule online.
MCN Healthcare is the exclusive distributor of the JCRQSN monthly broadcast series.
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