Adena Medical Center Hosts Mobile Classroom to Bring Continuing Education Directly to its Healthcare Workers

CHILLICOTHE - As part of an ongoing commitment to delivering the best possible patient care and a dedication to staff education, Adena Medical Center recently hosted the Kimberly-Clark Health Care HAI Education Bus onsite.  The HAI Education Bus is part of a larger initiative by Kimberly-Clark called "Not on My Watch," a national infection prevention campaign for healthcare professionals.

Delivering continuing medical education (CME) and continuing education (CE) programs based on the latest research, the HAI Education Bus provides doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals with a convenient setting aboard a 45-foot customized bus that includes workstations and is outfitted for video and audio presentations. Here, participants can update their knowledge of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) through interactive educational programs. On the HAI Education Bus, caregivers have access to expert speakers, group presentations, round table discussions and useful information on preventing infections such as surgical site infection (SSI) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).

"HAI is an important issue in healthcare today and prevention is certainly our top priority. We believe that continuing education among our healthcare professionals about the latest infection prevention practices is an effective measure for controlling the risk of HAI," said Julie McCray, Infection Prevention Manager at Adena Medical Center.  "Having Kimberly-Clark's HAI Education Bus here at Adena Medical Center helps us to balance the time our staff spends on delivering the very best in patient care with access to current educational offerings."

For details about the "Not on My Watch" campaign, and the HAI Education Bus, please visit www.HAIwatch.com. For more information about Adena Medical Center, please log on to www.adena.org.