Breaking the Chain of Infection: A Systems Approach to Reusable Medical Equipment Safety Learning Collaborative

Reusable medical equipment is essential to patient care but gaps in device safety and quality assurance can create hidden infection risks across healthcare settings.

Watch this brief informational session to learn more about this five-month Infection Prevention and Control Collaborative designed to help healthcare teams reduce infection risks through stronger cross-disciplinary systems.

Learning Objectives

• Why reusable medical equipment presents unique infection prevention challenges
• How the collaborative strengthens risk assessment, quality assurance, and communication across disciplines
• What participants can expect from the five-month experience, including the applied improvement project
• Which roles and care settings benefit most from participating
• How continuing education and peer learning are incorporated

This session is ideal for Infection Prevention professionals, biomedical engineers, sterile processing leaders, clinicians, quality and patient safety teams, risk management, supply chain, and facilities professionals considering participation.

Whether you’re exploring enrollment or determining if this collaborative is right for your organization, this session will provide the clarity you need.

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Speaker

Susan Singh, MPH, CIC, PMP
Infection Preventionist 

Susan possesses over 17 years of infection prevention experience working at acute care hospitals across the United States, both in large academic facilities and smaller community hospitals. She earned her Master of Public Health in Community Health from the City University of New York at Brooklyn in 2007, following a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2004.

Before joining ECRI as an Infection Preventionist, Susan served as the Director of Infection Control & Epidemiology at a 400+ bed community hospital in the Bronx, NY, where she was nominated for the United Hospital Fund’s 2021 Quality Improvement Champions Award for her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also successfully led several quality improvement efforts, including the mitigation of Candida auris transmission in the Intensive Care Unit and on the chronic ventilator unit through a multidisciplinary approach.

Ms. Singh's recent key projects at ECRI include developing and serving as the subject matter expert for a 10-part educational video series on the prevention and control of Candida auris in healthcare settings. She also serves as co-chair of the Education Committee on the board of her local APIC chapter in Central Ohio. In addition, Ms. Singh volunteers as a co-lecturer for the United Nations Division of Healthcare Management and Occupational Safety and Health/Office of Support Operations, where she developed an infection control training webinar for international physician hospital assessors.