TIPS is the Strategic Partner for Legionella 2020
TIPS continues as the Strategic Partner for the Legionella Conference. NSF Health Sciences, an NSF International company, and the National Environmental Health Association will bring together professionals from a wide variety of industries, including health care, to discuss the growing concern of Legionella outbreaks at the third annual Legionella Conference, to be held in August 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
The 2020 Legionella Conference theme, Prevention of Disease and Injury From Waterborne Pathogens in Health Care, centers on how hospitals, water utilities, health departments, industry and regulators can work together to identify best practices for prevention of disease in hospitals, long-term care centers and skilled nursing homes. Join the conversation on how we can work toward safer health care facilities.
In 2020, the Legionella Conference takes place August 19 – 21 in Chicago, Illinois with the theme of Prevention of Disease and Injury from Waterborne Pathogens in Health Care. This theme will enable relevant members of academia, government, industry, health care and regulatory to discuss how we can collectively minimize the occurrence of Legionella and other opportunistic pathogens specifically in the health care setting.
Topics covered will include:
- Preventing health care-associated waterborne disease outbreaks
- Infection prevention in sterile processing
- Sampling strategies
- Lessons learned from conducting outbreak investigations (surveillance, reporting and response)
- Reducing energy and water demand
- Design, commissioning, construction and renovations
- Regulatory frameworks for managing waterborne disease risks in building water systems
- State and local inspection of water systems
- Updates on federal, state and local legislation and regulations
Subject matter covered will be relevant to professionals working in:
- Facilities management
- Public health
- Infection control and prevention
- Hand hygiene
- Health care facility design and construction
- Environmental health and safety
- Sustainability
- Water treatment
- Regulatory
- And more
