IPAC BRITISH COLUMBIA (BC)

2017 Executive President: Baljinder Sidhu RN BScN CIC President-elect: Kelly Dillon RN BScN CIC Secretary: Ron Morley RPN ADPN Treasurer: Kam Riarh RN BScN Membership Director/Webmaster: Kelsi Rivers MPH RN CIC 2018 Executive President: Kelly Dillon RN BScN CIC President-elect: Jacquie Hlagi RN Secretary: Baljinder Sidhu RN BScN CIC Treasurer: Kam Riarh RN BScN Membership Director/Webmaster: Kelsi Rivers MPH, RN, CIC Number of Members: 198 Geographic Area Served: British Columbia and the Yukon Membership Members come from a variety of professional fields, including but not limited to, nursing, epidemiology, medical, and industry, working in acute, long-term, community, outpatient, prehospital care and industry. Meetings All meetings take the form of education and general business meeting, in person or via Skype.

• February –Education presentation “Key Criteria for the selection of an ideal disinfectant” followed with General meeting

• April – General meeting • June – Members who presented at the National IPAC Canada Conference in PEI presented their oral/poster

presentation for the chapter; followed with general meeting • September –Education presentation “Microbiology Hot topics” presented by Dr. Christopher Lowe and

“PICNet Guideline development and revisions process” presented by Joanne Archer. Followed with General Meeting

• November (Annual General Meeting) – education presentation: math on bedside rail contact and point of Care application, by Jim Gauthier. Followed with general meeting. IPAC 2018 executive members were announced.

Highlights

• IPAC BC Chapter won $1000 from the IPAC Canada National Conference: most chapter members engaged in the conference app during the conference. These funds were used for celebration of IPAC BC Chapter’s 30th Anniversary!

• IPAC BC Members have been very active in IPAC and quality initiatives this year: o Marney Hunt RN: Best Oral Presentation at the National IPAC Canada Conference: Utilizing

Visual Cues and Engaging Families in the Sibling Health Screening Process o Kristie Harding RN :Best Poster Presentation at the National IPAC Canada Conference:

Duration of Precautions for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Outpatient Oncology Setting: A Canadian Snapshot

o Guanghong Han, PhD: Best First Time Submission: The impact of vancomycin‐ resistant Enterococci (VRE) policy and practice changes in BC

• Three education scholarships supported IPAC BC members in attending the National IPAC Canada Conference and the annual IPAC BC education day.

o Marney Hunt and Nikki Gill -IPAC BC Education Scholarship o Mary McNaughton- Moira Walker Award

• The Chapter supported the 2017 President and Membership Director/Webmaster to attend the National IPAC Canada Conference

• The IPAC BC education day- “30 years Later: From Then and Now” was a great success, celebrating our 30th Anniversary as a chapter. Attended by 55 members and guests- Attendees appreciated the networking opportunities, discussions with industry vendors and a variety of educational presentations.

• IPAC BC members continue to represent the profession, the chapter and the national organization at all levels and at all opportunities.

• Next year the tentative plan is to have the education day in Interior BC!

Bal Sidhu RN BScN CIC Chapter President 2017

IPAC-NA Infection Prevention and Control Northern Alberta A Chapter of Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) - Canada

Prepared by Tiffany Herrick, President IPAC NA. Dec 2017 & updated Jan 2018

IPAC NORTHERN ALBERTA

2017 EXECUTIVE

President: Tiffany Herrick RN BScN

President Elect: Denise Sorel RN BScN CIC

Past president: Lee Hanna RN CIC

Secretary: Sukhi Jagpal BSc, BEH, CPHI(C)

Treasurer: Ravneet Sandhu BSc BEH CPHI(C)

Education Chair: Terry Lauriks BSc BEH CPHI(C) CIC

Webmaster: Sara Gallinger RN BScN

Membership Director: Tiffany Herrick RN BScN

2018 EXECUTIVE

President: Denise Sorel RN BScN CIC

President Elect: Yvette Gable RN (elected in Jan. 2018 chapter meeting)

Past President: Tiffany Herrick RN BScN

Secretary: Erin Roberts RN, BScN, CIC (elected Jan.2018 chapter meeting)

Treasurer: Ravneet Sandhu BSc BEH CPHI(C) (elected in Jan. 2018 chapter meeting)

Education Chair: Mandeep Atwal, BSc, BEH, CPHI(C)

Webmaster: Sara Gallinger RN BScN

Membership Director: Tiffany Herrick RN BScN

Number of Members: 75

Geographic Area Served:

Northern and North Central Alberta from the NWT border to Red Deer.

Meetings:

Five meetings were held on the second Wednesday of roughly every second month, excluding

July and August. November scheduled meeting was canceled due to unexpected issues,

unfortunately delaying selection of the new Executive for 2018. Each meeting included an

educational hour followed by the business meeting.

Education topics and presenters:

IPAC NA continues to support the strategic goal for education with an emphasis on dynamic

education topics impacting our practice across the continuum of care.

IPAC-NA Infection Prevention and Control Northern Alberta A Chapter of Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) - Canada

Prepared by Tiffany Herrick, President IPAC NA. Dec 2017 & updated Jan 2018

January 11, 2017: Public Health inspection of Personal Services. Presented by

Thomas Cheung, EPH.

March 8, 2017: EMS – New Recruits and IPC Orientation (Pre-hospital care).

Presented by Justyna Augustyn, ICP.

May 11, 2017: Fire Code – an IPC response to the Ft. McMurray Fire. Presented

by Kimberly A. Miller, ICP.

June 14, 2017: IPAC NA members networking September 13, 2017 Highlights of IPAC National Conference – panel presentations by members who attended national conference. November 8, 2017: meeting cancelled.

Highlights:

Our chapter continues to use Microsoft Lync for meetings to allow for greater

participation of our membership from both local and broader geographical areas.

Meeting attendance has remained steady at ~ 25-30% of our membership.

Although IPAC NA continues to promote the strategic goal of continued membership

and engagement at our chapter meetings, the chapter continues to be challenged by a

decrease in membership; with a drop of ~ 10% this year.

Seven members attended the IPAC National conference in PEI. Funding enabled the

IPAC NA President and several members to attend and participate!

IPAC NA continues to promote Certification and financially reimbursed one member

upon successful completion of their CIC exam.

Three Executive team meetings were held this year in addition to regular member

meetings. Despite some unexpected events (our secretary moved out of IPAC in June;

our President had a medical leave; our Treasurer had a 3 month education leave) our

small Executive core remains committed and works hard to support IPAC and IPAC NA).

Extensive discussion on hosting a full-day IPAC education day next fall has occurred

several times. This would be an opportunity to offer continuing education and a fund-

raiser. A call-out for member volunteers to organize an education day had delayed

response (Jan. 2018 saw 7 members volunteer). IPAC NA members have offered our

sister chapter IPAC SA any assistance they might need as they host the 2018 National

Conference.

Our fiscal position is such that without a fundraising event, our chapter will not be able

to offer financial support for continuing education in the near future, in the same

manner as we have been.

IPAC SOUTHERN ALBERTA (IPAC SA)  Executive 2017   President: Grant Moir, IPC‐EMS President‐elect: Vacant Secretary: Heather MacLaurin, IPC‐Community Treasurer: Kim Houde‐ IPC‐PLC Education Coordinator: Kristine Cannon, IPC‐FMC Seminar/Fundraising Coordinator: Melissa Eyben, IPC‐PLC Webmaster: Dione Kolodka, IPC‐PLC Past President: Michelle Platt, IPC‐PLC  Executive 2018 President: Kim Houde President‐elect: Vacant Treasurer: Kris Cannon Secretary/Membership: Heather MacLaurin 

 Number of Members: Jan 2018 ‐ 81 members  Geographic Area Served:  South and South/Central Alberta. Our borders extend from Red Deer (north) to the AB/USA border (south); then from the BC/AB (west) to the AB/SK (East) borders.   Membership: IPAC Southern Alberta (IPAC SA) membership consists of the following demographics:  

Infection Prevention and Control professionals from acute care hospital sites, assisted/supportive living sites, urban and rural community sites and pre‐hospital care.   

Representatives from industry, environmental services, medical device reprocessing, educational institutions, private consultants, dental offices and individuals with an interest in Infection Control 

Meetings  There were nine meetings held during 2017: 3 in‐person meetings and 6 LYNC meetings. All meetings included two components: An education session & board meeting as per standard agenda *Included round table for sharing strategies, concerns & networking.   Education and Guest speakers: Jan to Dec, 2017 February 2017‐ “The Game of Gowns, Gloves and Masks: Why don’t we teach it right?” – Dione Kolodka‐ ICP – Calgary Zone March 2017‐ “Antibiotic Stewardship”‐Bruce Dalton‐ID Pharmacist‐ Calgary Zone April 2017‐ “Key Criteria on the Selection for the Ideal Disinfectant”‐ Gordon Platt‐ Diversey September 2017‐ “Influenza Season‐2016‐2017‐ “What was your experience?”‐ IPAC‐SA members October 2017‐ “IPAC National Conference NB/PEI‐ Highlights – President and IPAC‐SA members that attended  Highlights: Jan‐Dec, 2017   

Debbie Lam Li, Dr. John Conly & Annie Fong‐ submitted an abstract which was accepted for poster presentation to Quality and Safety Summit 2017 on “Development and Application of a Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle for Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Insertions and Revisions” in October 2017. The Quality Summit was held in Edmonton. Dr. Conly presented on behalf of the team. 

Gwyneth Meyers‐ Member of the IPAC Canada Education Core Committee completed her PhD April 2017 “ Building Educational Practice and Culture in Infection Prevention and Control: A Design‐based Research Study” 

Heather MacLaurin‐ Member of the IPAC Canada Membership Core Committee. Served on  judging panel for 3M Chapter Achievement Award 2017 

Jennifer Happe‐ 2 Publications‐ 1) Infection Prevention and Control Canada. (2017). Surveillance Definitions of Infections in Canadian Long Term Care Facilities. Canadian Journal of Infection Control, (Fall Suppl):10‐17. 2) Cannon, K., Byrne, B., Happe, J., Wu, K., Ward, L., Chesnel, L., & Louie, T. (2017). Enteric microbiome profiles during a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of surotomycin versus vancomycin for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 72(12), 3453‐3461. Also, Elected IPAC Board of Directors Secretary , Joined IPAC Membership Core Committee, Represented IPAC at House of Commons HESA Committee to present evidence on the need for a national AMR surveillance data repository , IPAC Rep on CNISP working groups: Point Prevalence WG (including AC, LTC and CARSS Rural and Northern hospitals AMR/AMU projects) ; Data Quality WG; SSI Hip and Knee WG 

Jim Gauthier MLT CIC – Diversey, gave a lecture to IPAC SA Chapter members at Children's Hospital in Calgary and introduced the new UVC lights (MoonBeam3 for room disinfection and SKY7XI for mobile phones and tablets. 

Karen Cargill, Dione Kolodka and Jennifer Happe were  Diversey Scholarship winners 

Kris Cannon‐ 2017 Publications: ‐ Contributing author: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ‘Enteric Microbiome Profiles during a    Randomized Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Surotomycin Versus Vancomycin for the Treatment of Clostridium difficile infection’.  Contribution to the publication and clinical trial ‘Effect of oral capsule vs colonoscopy‐delivered fecal microbiota transplantation on recurrent Clostridium difficile infection‐A Randomized Clinical Trial’ 

Kris Cannon‐ Top female runner‐IFIC run Niagara IPAC Conference.  

Kris Cannon, Craig Pearce and Heidi O’Grady were part of the research team awarded the AHS president’s Excellence Award for outstanding achievements in innovation and research excellence.   

Linda Kamhuka‐ Attended the Canadian Association of Pediatric Health Centres annual conference from October 22 to 24, 2017 in Montreal and presented a poster entitled, “The Effect of an Infection Prevention and Control Mobile Application on Patient and Family Knowledge.” The project involved providing IP&C and Hand Hygiene education to patients and families in person, or using a smart phone app, then evaluating how well they retained that knowledge. 

Lorinda Stuber‐completed CIC in April 2017.  IPAC Canada National Conference in PEI:  

Nine members attended 

Gwyneth Meyers‐ Attended PEI as Scientific Program Co‐chair – submitted an abstract that was accepted for a presentation and also facilitated a post conference workshop on Facilitating Effective Discussions 

Jennifer Happe‐ 4 Oral Presentations: 1) A Brave New Canadian World of Infection Case Definitions for 

Long Term Care (also presented at IPAC Newfoundland Chapter Education Day and IPAC Network of Networks IG meeting) 2) Driving Physician Hand Hygiene Compliance from Unacceptable Lows to 

Sustainable Highs 3) Treating Asymptomatic Bacteriuria In Orthopedic Surgical Patients – A Risky and 

Outdated Practice 4) Preventive Measures During Construction – A Bother Or A Boon? A Surveillance Project Following a Major Flood 

Karen Cargill‐attended the 2017 conference and submitted/presented a poster on “Continuing Care Provincial Working Group: Collaboration in Alberta Health Services”.  Set up a promotional booth for the 2018 conference & had a small raffle draw for IPAC‐SA. 

Roberta M‐ Attended the IPAC national conference in PEI as an invited speaker for the ‘IPC Detectives’ session on Tuesday, June 20th presenting “The Case of the Masquerading Wheelchair Washer”. 

 

SASKATCHEWAN PROFESSIONALS IN INFECTION CONTROL (IPAC SASKPIC) 2017 Executive President: Karrie Yausie BA BScOT CIC President-Elect: Sherry Engel RN BSN CIC Secretary: Melayna Fusick RN BSN BCOMM Treasurer/Membership Coordinator: Robin Johnson, MLT, BMLS Education and Programs Coordinator: Cheyanne Roth, RD, BSc (Nutr) Webmaster: Gwen Cerkowniak RN BSN CIC 2018 Executive President: Karrie Yausie BA BScOT CIC President-Elect: Sherry Engel RN BSN CIC Secretary: Melayna Fusick RN BSN BCOMM Treasurer/Membership Coordinator: Robin Johnson, MLT, BMLS Education and Programs Coordinator: Cheyanne Roth, RD, BSc (Nutr) Webmaster: Gwen Cerkowniak RN BSN CIC Number of Members: 71 (20 CIC Designations) Geographic Area Served: The Province of Saskatchewan Membership: Across the continuum of care and service Meetings Two general meetings were held on April 4th and September 15th (AGM in Saskatoon). The chapter held seven executive meetings by teleconference to discuss:

• IPAC SASKPIC Strategic Plan and ToR Revisions o Finalized and Approved December 2017

• Addition of documents into the IPAC SASKPIC members area of website o Updated Strategic Plan and ToR o Added PICNs to website

• IPAC SASKPIC spring and fall conferences - AGM held in Saskatoon (September) o Adobe connect used for spring education conference (April)

• Revisions of documents and policies: o Policy and Procedures/ToR were revised to change conference funding to executive o Name change from CHICA to IPAC SASKPIC in both Strategic Plan and ToR o IPAC SASKPIC Budget

Highlights

• 2017 Spring Education Day (April 4th). Presentation: Discover Medical Device Reprocessing -Highlights – Vi Burton

• 2016 Education Day Preparing for Change (Sept 15th). Construction: Teacher, teacher: Can you teach me? Becoming better educators (Jim Gauthier –

sponsored by Sealed Air/Diversey Care) “Think TB” One Pager-A Tool for Healthcare Providers (Cathy Hartsook – TB Prevention &

Control Saskatchewan) Saskatchewan Health Authority Transition Update – Val Phillips Extrapulmonary TB (Dr. K. Stewart- Clinical Lead, TB Prevention & Control Saskatchewan) Bending IP Rules without Braking our Principles (Jim Gauthier – sponsored by Sealed

Air/Diversey Care) Karrie Yausie BA BScOT ICP CIC

IPAC Manitoba 2017 Executive President: Jennifer Regier MSN, RN, CIC President-elect: Shelly Rempel BN, RN, CIC Secretary: Preston Cameron MLT Treasurer: Lori Fleetwood BN, RN Education Co-Chairs: Brenda Dyck BN, RN; Gord Platt BA; Megan Sodomsky BSc 2018 Executive President: Shelly Rempel BN, RN, CIC President-elect: Vacant Past President: Jennifer Regier MSN, RN, CIC Secretary: Preston Cameron MLT Treasurer: Lori Fleetwood BN, RN Education Co-Chairs: Brenda Dyck BN, RN; Gord Platt BA; Megan Sodomsky BSc; Rhea Shymko BN, RN Number of Members: 49 Geographic Area Served: Manitoba Membership Membership includes representatives from acute care, long term care, public health, community health, mental health, and industry. Meetings The chapter meets every other month with the exception of the summer months. Chapter meetings are held in person with a teleconference option. Meetings start with a 60 minute education session followed by a 75 minute meeting that includes journal club and roundtable discussion. Highlights The chapter hosted another successful annual education conference attended by healthcare providers and support staff from across the province with representation in each sector. The chapter also provided a member education day coupled with the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The chapter has continued to focus its efforts to retain, diversify, and increase membership. To this end, the chapter has reminded existing members of the available funds for education, advertised the available funding to potential members, funded six members to attend a two-day CSA Infection Control and Construction course, and renewed our online APIC Manual access for members. We also plan to have a ‘Bring a New Member’ contest in 2018, where existing members will recruit new members – the new members will be entered in a draw to win a free membership in the following year and the recruiting member will receive a gift card. Several of the objectives to meet the chapter’s strategic goals/objectives are no longer attainable due to lack of human resources. Jennifer Regier MSN RN CIC Chapter President

IPAC Northwestern Ontario

Executive 2017 President: Hilary McIver, RN, HBSCHN, MA (MGT) President-elect: Vacant Secretary: Karen Battigelli, RN PSCN Treasurer: Diana Gowanlock, RN BSCN CIC Executive 2018 President: Hilary McIver, RN, HBSCHN, MA (MGT) President-elect: Vacant Secretary: Karen Battigelli, RN, PSCN Treasurer: Diana Gowanlock, RN, BSCN CIC Number of Members: 32

Geographic Area Served:

Northwestern Ontario (IPAC NWO) covers a large geographic area with most of the members residing in areas approximately 4- 8 hours’ driving distance or further. We cover the area the size of France. Members are able to attend the meetings generally by teleconference.

Membership

The chapter has a diverse group of health care providers from long-term care, public health, rehabilitation to acute care settings. All have chief responsibility in providing ensuring infection prevention and control is practiced within their institutions.

Meetings:

The chapter meets twice a year. During these meetings is an education period followed by relevant business to the chapter. Members are able to have teleconference access for these meetings.

Highlights:

This fall the chapter held a one day educational day for its members. During this time one of our colleagues presented their experience during the Ebola crisis as well as a presentation of CRE was presented.

Hilary McIver RN HBScHN MA(Mgt) Chapter President

IPAC SIMCOE MUSKOKA

2017 Executive President – Jodi-Marie Black RN BScN CIC Past President – Isabelle Guerreiro RN CIC President Elect – Sean Brown RN BScN CIC Secretary – Deb Paton BScN RN CIC Treasurer/Membership Coordinator – Micheline Ayers RN BN Webmaster – Mandy Deeves BScN RN MPH CIC /Monica Curtis RN Education Coordinator – Laurie Rodnick RN CIC

2018 Executive Past President – Jodi-Marie Black RN BScN CIC President – Sean Brown RN BScN CIC President Elect – TBD Secretary – Deb Paton BScN RN CIC Treasurer/Membership Coordinator – Amanda Sturgeon BASc(EH) CIPHI(C) Webmaster – TBD Education Coordinator – Jenee Wallace CPHI(C)

Membership and Education

IPAC Simcoe Muskoka (SM) had 36 members during the 2017 year. Due to the wide area covered by Simcoe Muskoka, we hosted four chapter meetings and five executive meetings which were all available by teleconference, in-person and webinar. Each chapter meeting involved an education session. The education sessions included topics:

1 – Feb 10, 2017 - Critically Appraising Research Literature – Heather Candon

2 – May12, 2017 – CPE - Kim Baker from William Osler Health System 3 – August 18, 2017 – Teacher, Teacher, Can you Teach Me? Becoming better Educators – Presented

by Jim Gauthier MLT, CIC – Senior Clinical Advisor, Infection Control – Diversey Inc.

- Lyme Disease in Simcoe Muskoka – Presented by Dr. Colin Lee, MD, MSc, CCFP(EM), FRCPC - Associate Medical Officer of Heath, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

4 – Nov17, 2017 – Public Health IPAC Inspections – Jenee Wallace

IPAC SM members are primarily from the acute care and public health sector with representation from Prehospital care, community, long-term care and industry.

IPAC SM continues to focus on the strategic plan of the chapter that was developed in 2015 and last reviewed November 2017. One of the major focuses is increasing membership. During the year, the Terms of Reference were reviewed, updated and approved at the IPAC Canada board meeting in June 2017.

. We participated as a host site with IPAC GTA in the CIC prep sessions during the fall of 2017. Six members participated in the session with positive feedback.

IPAC SM received the 2nd place award at the National Conference (2017) for increase in membership. The chapter was provided 1 free membership for the 2018 year to iPAC Canada. This award was won by Lana Whittaker.

Initial discussions are underway for the next education session to be hosted in 2018. Different strategies have been investigated to increase membership, attendance and participation at the chapter level – Chapter and Executive members. IPAC-SM has created an information package for new members with passwords and chapter information encouraging use of the multiple resources that are available. Plans are also underway to enhance the social media presence of the chapter

IPAC HUPIC Executive 2017 President: Brenda Tanner, RN, CIC, President-elect: Colleen Ouwendyk, RN, BSc, CIC Secretary: Laura Farrell, BSc, BEd, CPHI(C), CIC Treasurer: Barb Schmidt, RN, BSc, CIC Executive 2018 President: Colleen Ouwendyk, RN, BSc, CIC Past President: Brenda Tanner, RN, CIC Secretary: Laura Farrell, BSc, BEd, CPHI(C), CIC Treasurer: Christina Milani, B.Sc., CPHI ( C ), CIC Number of Members: 19 Geographic Area Served: IPAC HUPIC members reside in Huron, Bruce, Perth, Grey and Simcoe counties. Membership Our membership consists of health care workers from acute care, public health, long term care, retirement homes and Public Health Ontario’s IPAC Department. Meetings HUPIC meets 3-4 times per year with executive and education planning meetings as required. Our meetings are usually half day including an educational component. The majority of our meetings are educational and we encourage members to bring a fellow HCW from their facility to allow for networking and promote learning throughout the area. Due to a large geographical area, we move our meetings throughout our catchment area with members hosting the meetings at their facilities. In winter months we do host a video and teleconference meeting. Highlights Regular HUPIC meeting educational offerings were: - HUPIC hosted an Education Day and trade show with the focus on Environmental Services in partnership with our local health unit (Grey Bruce Health Unit) and local Public Health Ontario office on October 31, 2017. - Some educational highlights from our regular meetings include:

1. Loretta Urban Kew give an update on Accreditation and What’s new in Hand Hygiene Sinks,

2. Lapsing into Consciousness: Learning From IPAC lapses Laura Farrell, CPHI(C), CIC, Program IPAC Specialist PHO and Denna Leach RN, BScN, BEd, MA Public Health Manager GBHU

3. Taking CleanLearning to the Middle East" - Sharing best practice cleaning and disinfection practices internationally. Keith Sopha, President of CAEM and Founder- CleanLearning

-In 2018 HUPIC plans to trial Adobe Connect Webinar as offered by IPAC Canada to increase engagement from our LTC homes as most do not have video conferencing abilities Other events: - IPAC HUPIC continues to offer an educational fund to which members can apply to receive financial help to attend infection control related educational events - HUPIC would like to further partnerships with our neighboring Chapter IPAC Southwestern Ontario, in providing evening education sessions

IPAC PANA 2017 Executive President: Debbie Valickis RN BScN CIC President-elect: Michelle Vadori-Cina RN Secretary: Anne Augustin MLT, CIC Treasurer: Anne Augustin MLT, CIC Webmaster: Meghan Davies, RN, BScN 2018 Executive President: Debbie Valickis RN, BScN, CIC President-elect: Michelle Vadori-Cina RN Secretary: Kanwal Sekhon, RN, BScN Treasurer: Anne Augustin MLT, CIC Webmaster: Meghan Davies RN, BScN Education Facilitator/Lead: Maryam Khan, BSc Number of Members: 36 Geographic Area Served: Peel and Neighboring areas – Mississauga, Brampton, Orangeville, Caledon, Halton Membership Membership of IPAC PANA is small but steady. Our members are primarily nurses, medical laboratory technologists, public health nurse/inspectors, epidemiologists and dental workers working in a wide array of settings from emergency services, long term care, acute care, dental, community and public health. Meetings Our chapter met four times this year. Our meetings focused on education and condensed business portion. Meeting times changed based on member survey feedback which has improved meeting attendance. Educational topics included reprocessing, AROs, communication strategies, and, influenza planning. Highlights 2017 was a great year for IPAC PANA as our little chapter was busy with many activities and the main highlight was receiving the 3M Chapter Achievement Award for the second time. We are so happy that our small but mighty chapter could achieve this coveted chapter award. The 3M award was used in multiple ways: (1) speaker sponsorship of Nancy Mulroney facilitating a session on Communication Diversity at our Chapter Summer Social (2) subsidizing our November Evening Educational event on Antimicrobial Awareness and (3) CIC support of our fall study group. Two additional highlights were our educational events collaborating with local stakeholders and industry. On May 4, 2017 we held “Invictus: Learn from the IPAC Vets”, a collaborative endeavor by IPAC PANA and Peel Public Health. Our keynote speaker was Michael Burns Chief Executive Officer, 2017 Invictus Games and expert Dr. Jennie Johnstone, Public Health Ontario (PHO) who built on the IPAC theme in the military setting, one that normally is not considered but has similar IPAC challenges and outbreaks with its own specificities. Additional IPAC education was provided for Emergency services, public health, acute and LTC settings. It was well attended, highly successful with 110 attendees, 14 vendor sponsorships and positive participant feedback. This event also provided opportunity to increase industry sponsorship (Strategic plan 3.4.2) which led to a collaboration with industry (Clorox) for our second educational event on November 14th, 2017 “Building Awareness in Antimicrobial Stewardship”. It coincided with National Antimicrobial Stewardship week. Bradley Langford (PHO) and Dr. Nick Daneman (Sunnybrook Hospital) educated our members and other local stakeholders on the status and value of antimicrobial stewardship in acute. LTC and community settings. Our members are active in many ways. We have a strong engaged executive team. Anne Augustin is our regional council representative and is on the education committee planning the 2018 IPAC Canada conference. Our member engagement initiative to grow our chapter (Strategic plan 3.1.2) includes reaching out to new members to inform of chapter activities. The chapter supports and mentors our members to obtain their CIC designation. In the fall 2017,

IPAC PANA has partnered with IPAC GTA, IPAC SM to hold eight CIC study group sessions. Eight IPAC Canada members attended sessions at our Peel Chapter location with 31 attendees in total between the three chapters. We look forward to the upcoming year focusing on member engagement with a strategic planning meeting in January to determine key strategies for 2018! Debbie Valickis RN BScN CIC Chapter President

IPAC CENTRAL SOUTH ONTARIO (IPAC CSO) Executive: 2017 President: Sandra Comand, MLT ART CIC President-elect: Shelley Schmidt BScN RN Secretary: Cheryl Collins RN, BScN, CIC Treasurer: Connie Gittens Webber BSc, MLT, ART, CIC 2018 Executive President: Shelley Schmidt RN, BScN President-elect: Wendy James, RN, BScN, MHS, CIC Secretary: Cheryl Collins RN, BScN, CIC ; Tanya Denich (as of July 2018) Treasurer: Connie Gittens Webber BSc, MLT, ART, CIC Number of Members: 117 Geographic Area Served: Central South Ontario (Hamilton, Halton, Burlington, Cambridge, Fergus, Guelph, Brantford, St. Catharine’s, Niagara, and Haldimand-Norfolk) Membership The IPAC CSO membership includes novice and experienced professionals from varying disciplines: nurses, public health inspectors, and medical laboratory technologists, as well as police, fire and industry representatives of varying backgrounds. The majority of our members hold IPAC positions and or responsibilities in acute care, long term care, community health, Public Health and Public Health Ontario. Meetings Our meetings occur on the third Friday of February, April, June, September and December. Meetings are a full day. The morning is devoted to chapter business, updates and a question and answer session. Lunch period is used for networking and/or working group meeting. The afternoon portion of the meeting includes an educational component provided by an invited guest or a chapter member. Standing items on the agenda include: celebration of success for example CIC or SARE, alerts and outbreaks, updates from IPAC Canada, reports from the president, treasurer, interest groups and Public Health Ontario- IPAC Regional Support. We are actively investigating additional ways to bring our members together via Adobe Connect and teleconferencing. Chapter Education sessions:

• April 2017 - Wendy James, provided a very informative and inspiring presentation on new quality improvement IPAC initiatives at Guelph General Hospital. Included were- Using technology to highlight issues in cleaning technology; Interdepartmental Environmental Audits; Hand Hygiene Compliance; Using PCR testing.

• June 2017 – Trish Hutton, organized an activity to engage our attending members to go out into the community to share our knowledge re: IPAC and hand hygiene.

• September 2017 – Lorrie Ross & Chris Gaspar, Niagara Region Public Health- presented on IPAC lapses in the Niagara Community.

o We also held our Out of Box Award presentations: Wendy James (presented for Trish Hutton) “On the Hunt for 3M Award”.

• November 2017 – Jane Smallwood RN, BScN, MHSM, MBA, CNOR, Nurse Consultant Olympus Canada presented on endoscope reprocessing.

Highlights • Thursday April 6/2017 organized and held our very successful 21st Annual IPAC CSO Chapter Education

Day- “Bridging Partnerships in IPAC”. Presentations included Medical Procedures throughout the Ages; C. Difficile and IPAC; Varicella Zoster; UTIs for LTCHs; Interesting cases and enigmas in IPAC; Latent Tuberculosis Infection; Antibiotic Use and the Gut microbiota

• Presented our Chapter’s 2017 Out of Box awarded to Trish Hutton for her presentation “On the Hunt for the 3M Award”

• Several of our members reached out into our local communities to provide IPAC education. Education sessions were provided to Dundas Brownies; National CAEM conference; TOPIC; Hamilton LTCH 2017 Education Day; United Church Wellness session; local public school

• Held a Chapter Member Hand Hygiene Challenge— For the chance to win a gift card, members were tasked with going out into their local community (doctor/dentist office, children’s sports teams, veterinarian, hairdresser, etc.) and take a photo of them sharing their IPAC knowledge by teaching the importance of hand hygiene. Each submitted photo was entered into the draw for the gift card.

• Continued our financial support for Chapter members to attend conferences. • Financially assisted Chapter members to recognize and celebrate IPAC week within their organizations. • Our Chapter was pleased to provide monetary donations to the following in 2017- IFIC Scholarship fund;

IPAC Canada Presidents fund; Paul Webber Telecasts operation Africa; United Nations Foundation Bed Net campaign; Good Shepherd Ministries

• Celebrated our 2017 Chapter success with a Christmas Social gathering Shelley Schmidt 2018 Chapter President

IPAC GREATER TORONTO AND AREA (IPAC GTA) 2017 Executive President: Eva Skiba RN, BScN, CIC, GNC President-elect: Rohit Garg MBBS, MPH, CIC Past-president: Barley Chironda RPN, CIC Secretary: Melissa Avaness BSc, CIC Treasurer: Catherine Harlton-Strezov RN, BScN, CIC Marketing Chair: Murtuza Diwan MSc Networking Co-Chair: Heather Candon MSc, CIC Networking Co-Chair: Katherine Perkin BSc, CIC Webmaster: Shaun Chaimovitz, BASc CPHI (C) Education Committee Chair: Kamyab Ghatan, MD, CIC 2018 Executive President: Rohit Garg MBBS, MPH, CIC President-elect: Kamyab Ghatan, MD, CIC Past-president: Eva Skiba RN, BScN, CIC, GNC Secretary: Melissa Avaness BSc, CIC Treasurer: Kornelija Delibasic MSc, BASc CPHI (C), CIC Marketing Chair: Murtuza Diwan MSc Networking Co-Chair: Heather Candon MSc, CIC Networking Co-Chair: Katherine Perkin BSc, CIC Webmaster: Shaun Chaimovitz, BASc CPHI (C) – acting Education Committee Chair: Kishori Naik BSc, CIC Number of Members: 295 in Dec 2017 (increase of 14 members since 2016) Geographic Area Served Our membership primarily serves the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario- Our area is primarily bounded by Mississauga (West), Barrie (North), Oshawa (East), although we do have some members from further away and some members who are also members of other IPAC Canada chapters. Membership Our membership comes from a diverse background with both varied professional designations as well as work and practice settings with representation from across the continuum of the healthcare system (acute care, long-term care, complex continuing care, mental health, provincial government, public health, private industry, correctional services and community organizations). Meetings IPAC GTA meetings are compromised of face to face meetings as well as interactive meetings that rotate sites to ensure inclusion and maximized showcase of our member’s healthcare facilities. In addition we have started an innovative sharing platform using Adobe Connect- IPAC-Chat which is another way our members meet to share ideas. 2016 Meetings:

• January 12, 2017 Annual Strategy Planning Session

• February 28, 2017 Meeting at PHO, Presentations: Toronto Public Health update on current influenza season, Success stories and strategies from Long Term Care sector (Increasing staff immunization rate, Outbreak management), A snapshot of AROs in Health Care facilities in Ontario, Environmental Services and IPAC – “Together for patient safety”, “IPAC Intersections”

• April 25, 2017 Meeting at St. Joseph’s hospital, Presentations: "Spreading Best Practice: Joint Centres for Transformative Healthcare Innovation", a panel presentation on sharing best practices to decrease C. difficile infections among community hospitals.

• June 27, 2017 Summer BBQ at High Park – IPAC - Speed dating (learn from executive members about their roles, how you can become one) , networking (you never know how someone’s strategy in Hand Hygiene program could inspire you) and mentoring. Short presentations from IPAC Canada participants who were funded (total of 5). Lunch sponsored by Diversey Inc.

• December 5, 2017- IPAC GTA Annual Christmas Lunch at RL Solutions office - President’s IPAC-GTA update, Finance update, Toronto Public Health Update, Motivational speaker - PHO Senior Advisor on Leadership Development & Organizational Improvement, RL Solutions – “ How to get the most out of meetings”, IPAC week presentations from facilities that were funded (total of 5)

IPAC GTA CHAT sessions continue to be well attended. Many sessions are now including an educational presentation from a local stakeholder regarding an IPAC issue or topic. IPAC Chat sessions continue to provide networking opportunities and often include participation from those who might not always be able to participate in face-to-face full day chapter activities. IPAC Chat Sessions were held (1 hour facilitated teleconference/online networking sessions): February 3, 2017 March 15, 2017 May 17, 2017 Sept 13, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 The two IPAC GTA CHAT sessions that were most successful and well attended included a presentation from Brad Langford and Valerie Leung reviewed Ontario’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) Landscape Survey on May 17th; and the session on November 15th received excellent feedback with members wanting a similar session to review “Hot Topics in IPAC Literature” on an annual basis moving forward, presented by Barley Chironda. Networking committee has worked hard to collaborate and offer two IPAC GTA Buzz Newsletters this fiscal year. The sections include a hot topic, CIC study questions, job posts, meet the local IPAC team etc. This is now being tracked using Mail Chimp to review clicks and access. Social events have been organized after face to face Chapter meetings, great opportunity to network. Highlights IPAC GTA has new funding available for members who have passed their first CIC exam! (2017 IPAC CANADA CIC Award) A strategic planning session was held in January of 2017 and 2018 and all chapter members were invited to participate and contribute to the discussions, with focus on alignment with IPAC-Canada’s strategic plan. Highlights for 2017 included holding large full-day educational event that included partnership with Public Health Ontario, support from vendors and contributions to the agenda by presentations from within our membership as well as external guests or experts. This educational event was focused on IPAC across all sectors of healthcare. An additional highlight was IPAC-GTA’s presence at the national IPAC Canada Annual conference in PEI, and providing funding opportunities to assist some of our members to be able to participate. Conference participation included IPAC GTA members who were either presenting or attended for professional development and networking opportunities. Other chapter activities included providing funding opportunities for our members and to support IPAC outside of our chapter, including our program to provide funds to support IPAC week activities IPAC GTA continues to collaborate with other chapters across the country opening up its meetings and resources to other chapters across the country.

IPAC SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO (IPAC SWO)

2017 Executive: President: Cheryl Tung, BASc CPHI(C) President-elect: Francine Paquette BASc CPHI(C)CIC Secretary: Elaine Reddick MPA CIC CPHI(C) Treasurer: Sonalben Shah M.Sc. CIC Education Co-Chairs: Kim Staikos BScN CIC; Dori Taylor RN BScN CIC CCHN(C) Knowledge Transfer: Cara-Lee Coghill RN MScN CCHN(C) Non-Acute Care: Dori Taylor RN BScN CIC CCHN(C) 2018 Executive: President: Cheryl Tung BASc CPHI(C) President-elect: Francine Paquette BASc CPHI(C) CIC Secretary: Elaine Reddick MPA CIC CPHI(C) Treasurer: Sonalben Shah M.Sc. CIC Education Co-Chairs: Kim Staikos BScN CIC; Dori Taylor RN BScN CIC CCHN(C) Knowledge Transfer: Jessica Kooger BScN CIC Non-Acute Care: Cara-Lee Coghill RN MScN CCHN(C) Membership IPAC SWO (Southwestern Ontario) is comprised of 125 Members from Southwestern Ontario which includes Windsor, Sarnia, London and part of Waterloo-Wellington area. There is representation from acute care, long-term care, public health, government, and EMS. Meetings/Education After a 2-year hiatus, our chapter held a highly successful full day educational workshop in London with 117 participants in attendance. The event was extremely well received by participants and was financially successful for the Chapter. We also hosted four chapter meetings that include education sessions in 2017. Our first meeting was a webinar with Barley Chironda, IPAC-GTA past-president: “How to motivate and engage staff!” The balance of our meetings were held in person and topics included: Bridging the Gap between Environmental Services and Infection Control: “IPAC and ES- Outcome Driven Partnerships” JJ Arsenault, Aramark; “Is it Better with the Lights On?” Barb Schmidt, Hanover Hospital and David Chris, Work health Care Division; “Building Trust in Change” Yvonne Bialek, Glendale Crossing; “Update to PIDAC Environmental Cleaning Best Practice”, Francine Paquette, PHO. “Putting the Professional Pieces Together=POWER” Speakers included Dianne Marshall, Oxford Public Health & Emergency Services, Denise Madsen, Ontario Ministry of Labour, Elaine Reddick, Oxford Public Health & Emergency Services and Jeffrey Kraegel, Canadian Standards Association: How do different governing bodies and legislation impact an ICP with respect to roles and responsibilities both in acute and long-term care settings? IPAC Beyond Borders: Speaker Topics Include: Polio vaccination in India, TB case management in Nunavut, MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia and Ebola in West Africa.

Our Chapter continues to include vendors at our Chapter Meetings, with this revenue used for additional member funding for national IPAC conferences. Highlights:

• We provided financial support to one chapter member to attend the Charlottetown National Conference.

• Rosemarie Howie was presented the 3M-sponsored “Betty Bannerman Award of Excellence” for her dedication to IPAC in public health.

• In 2017, we averaged 56 attendees/meeting and had an average of 46.5 in 2016, showing an increase of almost 10 %!

• Four chapter members became new CICs.

Cheryl Tung BASc CPHI(C) Chapter President

IPAC OTTAWA REGION

2017 Executive

President: Sam MacFarlane President elect: Jo-Anne Janigan Secretary: Shelley Hudson Treasurer: Claude Bussiere 2018 Executive President: Jo-Anne Janigan President elect: N/A Secretary: Shelley Hudson Treasurer: Claude Bussiere Membership

IPAC Ottawa Region (IPAC OR) has a membership base of approximately 90 members, with representation from hospitals, long-term care, community, government (provincial and federal), military, pre-hospital, midwives and public health units.

Meetings

The membership meets five times a year, and IPAC OR uses a blended approach: Adobe Connect platform, and face to face for meetings. The IPAC OR executive committed to extending the invitation for chapter meeting education sessions to chapters across Ontario, assuming the topic would be of provincial interest. IPAC OR held a fall education evening, which brought together stakeholders interested in hearing about Clostridium difficile. Dr. Longtin and Dr. Johnstone spoke about their research into C diff carriers with discussions and dialogue continuing well after the sessions was over.

Highlights

In the fall of 2017, IPAC OR started their second CIC study group, which consists of eight sessions addressing the CBIC outline and additional topics that members have identified as requiring support. At the December meeting, IPAC OR held a pinning ceremony, recognizing six members who successfully obtained their Certified in Infection Control (CIC) designation.

IPAC OR continues to support members with financial assistance for conferences or successfully challenging the CIC or Self- Achievement Recertification Examination (SARE). The chapter supported three members and the president to attend the IPAC Canada conference and reimbursed three members who successfully challenged their CIC.

The success of the chapter is directly related to the enthusiasm and active participation from the membership, which often continues outside of the designated chapter meetings.

IPAC CENTRAL EAST ONTARIO (IPAC CEO) 2017 Executive President: Samantha Erskine BPH CIC President-elect: Vacant Secretary: Christina Murphy MHSc Treasurer: Sharon Connell RN CIC 2018 Executive President: Margaret Cameron MLT CQM/OE BHA CIC President-elect: Vacant Secretary: Laura Golloher BA Treasurer: Sharon Connell RN CIC Number of members: 36 Geographic Area Served: Our boundaries mimic the CEO Local Health Integration Network which encompasses the southern region of Ontario. It includes Northumberland and Pine Ridge Districts, east to Peterborough, west to Durham Region and north as far as the Haliburton Highlands and all areas within. We also welcome all members of IPAC Canada located outside of our geographic region who wish to designate their membership or additional chapter membership to the IPAC CEO chapter. Membership Members come from a variety of different backgrounds and facility types. Fifteen of our members have their CIC certification. Meetings The chapter’s 2017 events consisted of one teleconference, a BBQ, and a pub night. Each had an educational component that was presented by various members. Members that attended the annual IPAC Canada National Conference and the APIC conference shared their learnings with the group. Highlights Leanne Harding, Susan Day and Margaret Cameron attended the IPAC Canada National Conference in Charlottetown PEI. Margaret Cameron presented the following oral and poster presentations, which were submitted by members from Peterborough Regional Health Centre: Oral – Helping Hands: A Patient Hand Hygiene Program Poster – Creating a New Paradigm for Controlling MRSA Outbreaks

IPAC RENFREW COUNTY 2017 Executive President: Melissa Botz President-elect: Teri Wellon Secretary: Helen Esilman Treasurer: Kari Park 2018 Executive President: Melissa Botz President-elect: Teri Wellon Secretary: Vacant Treasurer: Kari Park Number of members: 20 Geographic Area Served: Renfrew County Membership Our chapter serves a number of LTC facilities and retirement homes, as well as four hospitals. Most of our members hold multiple designations in their roles. Meetings Chapter meetings are held on a quarterly basis, when we review IPAC Canada updates, review each interest group, and have local updates on outbreaks or trending infection data in our community. We have an education session at each meeting, with guest speakers twice a year. Highlights Over the past year we have made an endeavour to invite new practitioners to join our group during our meetings, as we see value in other professionals. We have also added a budget line to help pay for the cost of CIC certification. We have reviewed several audit tools and looked at a couple of electronic systems to help members with their current audit programs, as we want to use the innovative technologies that exist. Melissa Botz Chapter President

IPAC NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO (IPAC NEO)

2017 Executive: President: Suzanne Pelletier President-elect: Lise Runciman Secretary: Lise Runciman Treasurer: Lori Kraft 2018 Executive: President: Vicky Willet President-elect: Lise Runciman Secretary: TBD Treasurer: Lori Kraft Number of Members: 48 Geographic Area Served: Northeastern Ontario is Ontario’s second largest region in terms of land area. It spans 44% of the province's total geography, yet comprises only 4% of its population. The region is home to four cities where population exceeds 40,000: Greater Sudbury, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie and North Bay. However, more than half of Northeastern Ontario residents live in smaller centers. Membership IPAC NEO members represent a variety of practice settings: acute and long term care, community and public health, first response, government and industry. The chapter continues to struggle with declining membership. Meetings In 2017, IPAC NEO held two chapter meetings and a 1 ½ day conference. Chapter meetings are hosted in-person at four major centres while simultaneously offering a webinar session for those who are unable to attend in person. The in-person component facilitates networking among members. An educational component was included in both 2017 chapter meetings:

• April meeting: Ontario Antimicrobial Stewardship Landscape Survey. Presented by Valerie Leung, Bradley Langford and Julie HC Wu, Public Health Ontario. A total of 28 persons attended.

• December meeting: New Technologies in Environmental Cleaning: A Review of No-touch Disinfection, New Surface Components and Coatings on Surfaces. Presented by Jim Gauthier, MLT, CIC, Senior Clinical Advisor, Infection Prevention for Diversey Inc. A total of 22 persons attended.

Highlights A chapter education conference was held September 27-28 in Greater Sudbury. The event, titled “If I had a Nickel…preparing for and responding to existing and emerging threats” attracted approximately 70 local and regional participants. Guest speakers representing IPAC Canada, Public Health Ontario (PHO), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Public Services Health and Safety Association (PSHSA) delivered sessions on the following topics: IPAC lapses in community settings; organization risk assessments; occupational dermatitis; legionella; CPE and patient engagement. In developing the conference agenda, the planning committee gave consideration to the fact that most ICPs in Northeastern Ontario have multiple roles and responsibilities. IPAC NEO continues to focus on its strategic plan. Several chapter members are active participants in broader IPAC Canada activities such as the Mentorship Program and Audit Toolkit project. Our chapter will be the host of the 2019 Ecolab Poster Contest. Financially, the chapter remains healthy.

IPAC EASTERN ONTARIO (IPAC EO) 2017 Executive: President: David Ryding, BHSc, BASc, CIPHI(C), MPH, CIC President-Elect: Debbie McIntyre, RN, BScN Secretary: Leanna Gillan, RN, BScN Treasurer: Mary Anne Lupenette, RN Membership: Dawn Clare, RN, BScN Education: Sue Cooper, MLT, CIC (one year term) Novice ICP: Vanessa Solo, RN, OCT

2018 Executive: President: Debbie McIntyre, RN, BScN, CIC Past-President: David Ryding, BHSc, BASc, CIPHI(C), MPH, CIC Secretary: Ryan MacDougall, MPH, CPHI(C), CIC Treasurer: Nadia Weese, RN, BScN, CIC Membership: Dawn Clare, RN, BScN Education: Vanessa Solo, RN Novice ICP: Rachel Makin

Number of Members: 59 Geographic Area Served: Southeastern Ontario, bordered by Brighton in the west, Prescott in the east, Smiths Falls and Bancroft in the north, the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario on the south and including Cameroon, West Africa. Membership: Members include physicians, nurses, medical laboratory technologists, public health inspectors and industry members from various sectors (e.g., acute care, long-term care, mental health, community care, home care, and prehospital care). Meetings: The chapter held two full-day meetings (June and November) and three half-day meetings (February, April, September). Meetings were held in-person, by videoconference, by teleconference, and new this year by webcast from Kingston, Ontario. Meetings included presentations by Michelle Policarpio (1. Point prevalence survey of AROs in LTCHs: Past, present and the future 2. Annual laboratory and hospital survey: A look at the antimicrobial resistance in common hospital pathogens in Ontario); Keyur Dixit and Melanie Ray (What’s New at the PHOL Lab); Heather Candon, Lorraine Maze dit Mieusement, and Natasha Salt (CPE: A Draining Concern); Anna Bialachowski (How to Manage Your IPAC Career), and; Gary Garber (VRE, CPE and Stuff!!). Highlights: • Reviewed, updated, and modernized all of our chapter policy and procedures. • Surveyed chapter members regarding our general meetings. We had a response rate of 44%. Results

indicated we maintain the current meeting time, we pilot the webcast option, and we focus our attention on the education aspect of our meetings.

• Paid for Jacob Nkwan Gobte’s IPAC Canada and APIC memberships through the Cameroon Twining Project. • Donated $100 each to the Chapter President’s Fund and to IFIC. • Hosted two evening educational workshops entitled ‘Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) in Community

Healthcare Settings’. Over 100 delegates, speakers, and volunteers attended the two sessions. Attendees were from various community care settings such as physician offices, public health, and dental offices. Presentations included occupational health and safety, environmental cleaning, reprocessing, and case scenarios. Of the 68 evaluations received between the two workshops, 96% rated the workshops as very good (4) or excellent (5) on a 5-point scale.

• Nine chapter members attended the 2017 National Conference. Shirley McDonald received the Award of Merit for her extensive contributions to IPAC Canada, Paul Webber received the Moira Walker Memorial Award for International Service for his work establishing Webber Training, and David Ryding won the EcoLab Poster Contest. Shirley McDonald also presented ‘Introduction to the IPAC Canada Audit Tool App: A One Hour Tutorial and Discussion.’

• Five chapter members successfully challenged the SARE and one member became newly certified by CBIC. • Awarded one of our active members, Shirley McLaren, with Honorary Life Membership to our chapter in

recognition of her dedication, support and involvement in the chapter over the years.

David Ryding BHSc, BASc, CIPHI(C), MPH, CIC, Chapter President

PCI Montréal

2017 Executive President: Frédérica Gaspard Past president: Guylaine Morin President –elect: Vacant Treasurer/membership: Vacant (interim Frédérica Gaspard) Education: Vacant (interim Guylaine Morin ) Webmaster: Vacant Standards and Guidelines : Vacant 2018 Executive President: Frédérica Gaspard President-elect: Lara Maalouf Treasurer /membership: Susan Rachel Secretary: Marie Claude Pelletier Education: Adila Zahir, Webmaster: Chudney Pierre-Louis / Sabine Cainer Standards and Guidelines: France Nadon

Number of Members: 47

Geographic Area Served: The chapter represent the Province of Québec but most of the members are in the Montreal region , Montérégie and Laval. Membership: Most of the members come from Infection Prevention and Control domain, nurses or physicians and work in hospitals, rehabilitation and Long term care facilities. Most of the institutions have been merged into integrated centers, CIUSSS (Centre intégré universitaire de santé et services sociaux) and CISSS (Centre intégré de santé et services sociaux). Most of the members work in English-speaking institutions. Meetings: The executive had three teleconferences to try to revitalize the chapter. Due to the reorganization of the health care system, many challenges and barriers prevented the executive to achieve all objectives for the year. Highlights: Members of PCI Montreal are still on provincial committees like la Table Nationale de PCI, the CINQ committee. The chapter met once in December for the General Assembly. The name of the chapter was changed to PCI Qc and a new executive was formed. We elected a president-elect, treasurer/membership, secretary, education, webmaster, and Standards and Guidelines representative. We also had two presentations that day. One on the new Health ministry‘s “cadre de référence en PCI” by Madeleine Tremblay who just retired from her ministry position in IPAC and one on the” Hybrid room : challenges in IPAC” from our McGill University Health Center colleague, Ramona Rodrigues. The challenges remain: the language barrier; the increase of membership fees not supported anymore by most of the institutions; and the accredited webinars already offered online by our local Public Health and other public agencies.

PCI Montréal

Executif actuel: Presidente: Frédérica Gaspard Présidente sortante: Guylaine Morin Vice-président: Vacant Trésorière/adhésion : Vacant (itérim Frédérica Gaspard) Secrétaire : Vacant Responsable éducation: Vacant (intérim Guylaine Morin ) Site web: Vacant Responsable standards& lignes directrices: Vacant Exécutif pour la prochaine année (depuis le 1er décembre 2017) : Présidente: Frédérica Gaspard Vice-présidente : Lara Maalouf Trésorière/adhésion : Susan Rachel Secrétaire : Marie Claude Pelletier Nombre de Membres: 47 Région géographique desservie: La section de PCI Montréal représente la province du Québec, mais la plupart des membres sont concentrés dans la grande région de Montréal, Laval et Montérégie. Adhésion: La majorité de nos membres œuvre dans le domaine de la prévention et du contrôle des infections soit, à titre d’infirmière ou de médecins dans des hôpitaux, centres de réadaptation ou de soins de longue durée. La plupart des institutions ont été regroupées en centres intégrées, CIUSSS (Centre intégré universitaire de santé et services sociaux) and CISSS (Centre intégré de santé et services sociaux). La plupart des membres travaille dans des installations anglophones. Réunion: L’exécutif a eu trois téléconférences afin d’essayer de stimuler les activités de la section. En raison de la réorganisation du système de santé, beaucoup de challenges et de barrières ont empêché l’exécutif de pourvoir atteindre totalement ses objectifs pour l’année. Points saillants : Des membres de PCI Montréal participe toujours activement à différents comités provinciaux dont la table nationale de PCI et le comité CINQ. La section se rencontra en décembre pour son assemblée générale au cours de laquelle le nom de la section fut changé pour PCI Qc et un nouvel exécutif fut formé. Nous avons élu une vice-présidente, une trésorière /responsable adhésion, une secrétaire, une responsable site web et une responsable pour standards& lignes directrices. Nous avons aussi eu deux présentations cette journée-là, l’une sur le nouveau cadre de référence en PCI du ministère de la santé, présenté par Madeleine Tremblay qui vient de quitter sa position en PCI au ministère pour prendre sa retraite et l’autre sur « la salle d’opération hybride : un défi pour la PCI » par notre collègue du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill, Ramona Rodrigues. Les défis auxquels la section doit faire face sont la barrière de la langue, l’augmentation de la cotisation pour l’adhésion à IPAC Canada car elle n’est plus remboursée par la majorité de nos institutions et les webinaires accrédités offerts par la Santé publique locale et autres agences publiques.

IPAC NOVA SCOTIA Executive 2017-18 President: Daphne Murray President elect: Sheila Lee Treasurer: Tanya MacNeil Secretary: Suzanne Hennessey Membership Director: Kathy Ellis Webmaster: Dean Smith Past President: Kim Rafuse

1. We continue to provide/ and match members who are studying or wanting to start the process of obtaining their CIC. Currently one person has successfully obtained their CIC and two others are currently being mentored

2. Fall Educational Symposium: held November (9 evening session) and all day Nov 10th. This conference was very successful and because of this will be able to support more members to attend IPAC Canada National Conference in Banff. Topics below:

Measles, Lessons Learned Remembering why vaccines are important Brushing up on Oral Hygiene Why the Foley Skin Hygiene Doctors Without Borders: a nurses experience

3. Webmaster has been busy developing and increasing the optimization of our website. All requests or submissions for funding, bursary applications etc are all completed electronically. In preparation for our upcoming elections this summer/fall, Dean will be developing our online voting process. This is exciting for all of us.

4. Membership is fluid and remains about the same as in past years. Our membership as a whole is quite diverse

5. Strategic Planning will occur the end of April 2018 and our focus is to align our TOR with IPAC Canada.

6. Education Committee will also be reviewing their TOR 7. Meetings: we continue to utilize SKYPE with great success and meeting turnout is great.

Daphne Murray Chapter President

IPAC NEW BRUNSWICK/PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Executive 2017-18 President: Marcus MacDonald President-elect: Vacant Secretary: Kellie McLean RN BN Treasurer: Tara Ferguson RN BScN Executive 2018-19 President: Marcus MacDonald President-elect: Vacant Secretary: Kellie McLean RN BN Treasurer: Tara Ferguson RN BScN Number of Members: 44 Geographic Area Served: The provinces of New Brunswick and PEI Membership Chapter members include industry, corrections, EMS and ICPs from long-term care, acute care and community hospitals. Meetings Meetings were all held via conference call. There were several planning meetings for the conference. There were two chapter meeting in 2017 in March and November- both were via teleconference. Highlights The highlight of 2017 was planning and hosting the National IPAC Conference in Charlottetown. Marcus MacDonald Chapter President

IPAC NEWFOUNDLAND LABRADOR Executive 2017 President: Brenda Earles RN BN CIC President Elect: Paula Stagg RN BN MN CIC Past President/Webmaster: Alisa Cuff RN BN CIC Secretary: Betty Ann Elford RN Treasurer: Tracey Reid RN CIC Novice Member: Brenda Chaulk Furlong RN BN GNC Executive 2018 President: Brenda Earles RN BN CIC President Elect: Paula Stagg RN BN MN CIC Webmaster: Mark Graham RN BN CIC Secretary: Betty Ann Elford RN Treasurer: Tracey Hunt RN CIC Novice Member: Jasmine Day RN BN Number of Members: 34 Geographic Area Served: Province of Newfoundland Labrador Membership Membership is comprised of healthcare professionals from various disciplines. We have representatives from clinical nursing, physicians, industry, university as well as our ICPs. Several members volunteer on interest groups as well as other committees such as the Scientific Program Committee. Meetings Held monthly (except July and August) via the provincial teleconferencing system and IPAC Web Platform. Average attendance of approximately 60% of membership. Monthly meetings consist of Business, Education Session, Regional Reports and Shameless Bragging. IPAC NL executive also meet on a regular basis. Highlights:

• IPAC NL held its fifth Provincial Education Day via a webinar on. Oct 18 2017. It was well received, with 60 attendees and topics that once again included a family’s IPAC experience in an acute care setting.

• Two members received their CIC certification. To show our support they were awarded CIC pins. • PICNL (Provincial Infection Control Newfoundland Labrador) meets monthly and this year held its first

face to face meeting in two years! Through this group IPAC NL have moved to consistent electronic hand hygiene auditing in Acute and Long Term Care. This year will see the role out to include community care. Once this is accomplished hand hygiene rates will be published provincially. .

• Ten members attended the IPAC Canada Conference in PEI. Two members presented and four members received a Sealed Air Diversey Scholarship.

• Partial financial assistance was given to one member to attend the national CHES conference this year which was heavily focused on IPAC issues.

• IPAC-NL donated to Paul Webbers Teleclass Education Africa • IPAC-NL launched its Face Book Page in December

Brenda Earles RN BN CIC Chapter President