Seven Aspects of Surface and Product Selection: A Comprehensive Approach
This webinar offers a comprehensive examination of the essential process of selecting surfaces and products for healthcare settings. Participants will explore seven crucial aspects that go beyond mere aesthetics to ensure safety, functionality, and optimal performance. This course is specifically tailored for professionals who are accountable for infection prevention within healthcare facilities. It will provide valuable insights to help you make informed choices about surface materials and product selection, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a microbial safe and clean environment.
Who Should Attend This Webinar?
Infection prevention and control professionals, Value Analysis/Supply Chain professionals, Environmental Services Professionals, Nursing, Product Manufacturers
Learning Objectives:
- Establish a process and guidelines for the selection of surface materials and products.
- Learn how to engage a diverse group of healthcare professionals in the evaluation of surface materials and products to support expected life cycle expectations.
- Analyze potential obstacles to cleaning and disinfection based on the environment of care.
- Evaluate your facilities’ Infection Prevention Guidelines and the manufacturer IFU to reduce potential surface disinfection incompatibility issues.
- Empower attendees to ask key questions during the evaluation to reduce repair and replacement costs before purchase.
Interested in registering a large group?
For inquries about group ordering, please contact the event organizer.
Speakers
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Linda LybertExecutive Director, Healthcare Surfaces Institute (HSI)Linda Lybert is the Founder and Executive Director of the Healthcare Surfaces Institute (HSI), now a division of ISSA, where she also leads the newly established ISSA Healthcare Division. With 27 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Linda is a nationally recognized expert in infection prevention, with a specialized focus on the role surfaces play in the transmission of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
She developed the Seven Aspects of Surface Selection©, a groundbreaking framework that addresses the complex factors influencing surface safety and hygiene in healthcare environments. Her work has consistently emphasized the need for a multidisciplinary approach, uniting professionals from infection prevention, materials science, design, and healthcare operations.
To address the fragmented efforts across the industry, Linda founded HSI with a board of global experts, creating the first collaborative dedicated solely to surface-related challenges in healthcare. Under her leadership, the Institute has become a hub for research, education, and innovation aimed at reducing HAIs through improved surface design, selection, and maintenance.
In 2024, HSI merged with ISSA, and Linda is now spearheading the development of the ISSA Healthcare Division, which provides strategic guidance, training, and resources to healthcare professionals, manufacturers, and building service providers focused on healthcare environmental hygiene.
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Barbara StrainPrincipal, Barbara Strain Consulting LLCBarbara Strain, MA, CVAHP is an independent healthcare value consultant specializing in new, emerging, and disruptive technology and established medical modalities and is often a thought partner for provider hospital organizations to reimagine their value analysis programs. She spent more than 20 years as the Director of Value Management at the University of Virginia Health. Earlier in her 40-year career, she focused on clinical laboratory operations, microbiology, disinfection, sterilization, and infection control in provider hospital organizations. She is a founding member and past president of the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP). Barbara is an inductee of the 2021 Bellwether League Foundation’s Hall of Fame for Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership and currently serves at its Chairman.
