Please join our next monthly Sepsis Consortium webinar at a special day/time, Tuesday, October 28 at 10:00am ET. We will hear a presentation by two laboratory experts on the topic of blood culture contamination, including how to differentiate between clinical and surveillance definitions and why we have them. We will also discuss how to improve the quality of specimens and why that is important to sepsis diagnosis.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that we include our lab partners in this call. PLEASE invite them to join and participate.

They are important to our success in improving this data. Please remember this is one of our HRIP metrics and KHA staff have received multiple questions reporting this data.

Speakers:

• Dr. Alan Junkins- Chief of Microbiology, Norton Healthcare
• Levi Petrey- Microbiology Supervisor.  Baptist Hospital Corbin