Intermountain APIC Chapter 123 General Membership / Board Meeting

Intermountain APIC Chapter 123 General Membership / Board Meeting

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• 2017 End of Year Budget Report
• January Budget Report

• Kim to send out reminders to committee chairs for goals for next month
• Add goals to agenda so we can review each month
• minutes out the first Friday of the month send the flyer out at the same time
• agenda items, committee updates and goals updates by 2nd Friday of every month
• send out flyer again by the 3rd Friday with agenda
• send/set calendar appointments

• No solid goals yet
• No chair yet
• Jessi – need to work on policies to align with APIC: whistle blower, records retention, and conflict of interest

• You tube video – APIC put out a video everyone should watch
• Antibiotic stewardship government policy – government has changed the wording a great deal
• APIC sent out a letter re Ohio house bill which prohibits employers to mandate influenza vaccinations

• Strategies

• Improve awareness of the opportunity to run for a position
• Publicize candidate position descriptions, applications, and nomination forms on the I-APIC website

• add attestations to how board membership can benefit your career (i.e. Fellowship)
• opportunity for president/sec/treasurer to attend national APIC/SHEA

• Utilize committee and other board members to recruit candidates

• consider non-hospital board memberships and actively recruit

• Strategies

• Awards committee will identify which category the I-APIC chapter should apply for by 3/16/18 (Try to align with date application is posted. Will update date when more information for National APIC is available).
• Awards committee will compile awards submission for chapter review by the August chapter meeting (8/24/18)?

1. Re-engage members to attend meetings by hosting 6 education sessions, advertise sessions and send flyers out earlier.
2. Update the education calendar
3. Do a community project
4. Send out evaluations – survey monkey and email

• Education sessions discussion

• Antimicrobial stewardship meetings - a community perspective
• Ryan Lund in February
• Journal Club – Read an article and grade/rank it then do a presentation March
• National APIC
• Some blanks – immunizations in summerish
• Any interest in college of clean? Montana having one 1/27/18, Cindy Turney is attending
• We have vendors who are interested in presenting at monthly meeting but they won’t take the entire hour
• NHSN webinars
• Kim can post upcoming education sessions on website in many spots: as a document, google calendar. Try to have documents to Kim by the 10th of the month

• Community Projects –open it up to thoughts from the group

• Pt safety conference Susan has a free table I-APIC can use it to advertise
• QUALIS health diabetes class or group offer resources on a table that is IP related – importance of HH, educational flyer, handouts on table
• Facebook and Twitter – great way to advertise
• claims data – focus in on certain parts of Idaho
• Health Fairs – ISU mid-march $65; Pt Safety Conference in April; Meridian Dairy Days in May; Canyon Co fair with health and wellness expo at expo Idaho August; homeless; race or a walk present HH;

• Send out to the entire group to discuss
• If qualify for an award and only missing one thing, we should complete it to qualify for – we do quality for some awards and go above and beyond with some things, need to add that service piece
• Have to develop publications on IP
• Applied last year for an award, won’t hear until April
• Do we want to attach to the education session put on at beginning or end? Kim can flex time for education vs business meeting portion
• Could also discuss at the conference planning call as well

• Goals, don’t have yet, will discuss at next planning call
• JUMP too expensive
• Boise Center has plenty of space
• Meridian Marriott was a good space so should check on that again
• Parking last year – only ended up being $600 instead of the $2000 that was projected
• Once we get the venue nailed down we can start setting up the speakers and send out save the date postcards
• Speakers updates – Terry and Kim V sent out emails to speakers

• secretary is main point of communication for group to send to membership, how do we break up and coordinate
• secretary is person who presents minutes to the board
• communication and membership committee – look at in committee
• need specific times to sending things out? communication points during month to send out at a specific time

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