Breakout Session II
Healthcare Respiratory Protection
Programs: Effective Strategies and
Continuing Challenges
NIOSH/NPPTL PPT Stakeholder Meeting
March 20, 2012
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A collaboration between The Joint Commission, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the National Personal Protection
Technology Laboratory (NPPTL)
Supported by: NIOSH NPPTL
Project Team
The Joint Commission
– Barbara Braun, PhD, Project Director
– Brette Tschurtz, Associate Project Director
CDC / NIOSH
Eight member Technical Expert Panel
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– Ed Fries, Team Leader SCSST
– Debbie Novak, RN DSN, Senior Service Fellow
 Robert Harrison MD MPH (Scientific Advisor)- California Department of
Health; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine – UCSF
 Lisa Brosseau ScD CIH - Associate Professor, Industrial Hygiene,
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
 Scott Cormier - Director, Emergency Preparedness and Planning, HCA
 MaryAnn Gruden, MSN CRNP NP-C COHN-S/CM - Community
Liaison, AOHP; Manager, Employee Health Services – West Penn
Allegheny Health System
 Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH, DABT – Professor and Director of the
Occupational and Environmental Health Programs, University of
Maryland
 Paula McGown, CFNP, CPA – Admin Officer, Faculty Staff and
Wellness, Vanderbilt Health and Wellness
 Barbara Materna, PhD, CIH – Chief, Occupational Health Branch,
California Department of Health
 Edward Wong, MD – Chief Infectious Diseases, McGuire VA Medical
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Technical Expert Panel Members
Objectives
1. To provide participants with an overview of the
CDC/NIOSH/Joint Commission RPP project to
develop an educational monograph.
3. To identify challenges associated with the
implementation of respiratory protection
programs
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2. To identify innovative and effective strategies
and practices to strengthen healthcare
respiratory protection programs
 Ultimate goal
– To help healthcare organizations prevent worker
and patient exposures to hazardous agents
 Project goal
– To develop a free educational monograph of
effective practices, tools and resources to help
hospitals improve their respiratory protection
programs
 Scope
– Target audience hospitals (including critical
access, specialty and long term care acute care
facilities)
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Proposed monograph goals
Monograph Best Practices RPP
MN
2009
CA
NC
2010
NY
MI
2010
RTI
CA
The Joint
Commission
2011
2011
* Respirator Evaluation
for Acute Care Hospitals
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CA
CA
Timeline
September 2011 – August 2012
Begin
compilation
of key
documents
Identify
potential
topics for
monograph
Develop and test
questions for call
for effective
strategies; draft
monograph outline
Put out call for
effective
strategies
Continue
monograph
development
Finalize TEP
Aug
Feb
Sep
2011
Nov
Dec
Jan
2012
Mar
TEP
Call
#1
May
April
June
TEP
Call
#3
TEP
Call
#4
TEP
Call
#2
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Establish
expertise
needed on
TEP
Edit and
revise
monograph
copyedit,
production;
Plan for
dissem;
press
release
Small Group Exercise
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Break out into small groups
Facilitator will guide each session
Identify a presenter and a scribe
Record responses
Report back to large group
Responses Inform Request for
Examples
Joint Commission dissemination vehicles
 Email blast through Joint Commission On-Line service
 List-serves of accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals
Additional organizations to target:
Others? Recommendations and contacts
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 AOHP, AAOHN, ACOEM, APIC, SHEA; post in OSHA newsletter;
REACH organizations – CA hospitals, contacts in other regions
Questions and Answers
ian5@cdc.gov (Debra Novak)
bbraun@jointcommission.org (Barbara Braun)
btschurtz@jointcommission.org (Brette Tschurtz)
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National call for examples (TBD)
Interested in receiving call for examples
and ongoing project information?
Please direct questions to: