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Celtic Education Team Hosts Remington Report Virtual Conference

Public health officials state that geographic spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus continues to evolve, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting 1025 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with the virus and 26 deaths across 20 countries. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting at least 700 probable cases in 44 states and 1 death in the United States.

At a CDC media briefing, Richard Besser, MD, acting director of the CDC, noted that their numbers likely represent an underestimate of the cases that are actually taking place. Currently, of the 286 confirmed cases, there are 35 known hospitalizations in the United States. Of the cases, 62% are in persons younger than 18 years.

This teleconferences addresses what home care agencies can do now to explore prevention strategies, identify clinical interventions, infection control, and educate patients and their families.

Presented By:
Marian Essey, Vice President, Performance Improvement, Celtic Healthcare, Inc.
Misty Kevech, Director of Nursing Education, Celtic Healthcare, Inc.
Barbara Huston, Quality Improvement Manager, Celtic Healthcare, Inc.

Meet the Speakers:
Marian Essey is Vice President, Performance Improvement for Celtic Healthcare, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based geriatric home health organization. Prior to joining Celtic Healthcare, Ms. Essey was Director of Health Care Quality Improvement for the Home Health Quality Improvement Support Center (QIOSC) and for Pennsylvania's Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), Quality Insights of Pennsylvania. In this capacity, she led multiple home health quality improvement projects in the areas of home health and long term care. She has served as a technical expert on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) panel for the Home Health Publicly Reported Measures Resource Binder and as a member of the CMS Transformational Change Workgroup.

Misty Kevech, RN, BS Ed, MS, COS-C is currently the Director of Nursing Education and Program Development for Celtic Healthcare. She was previously the Communication/Training Manager for Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, the Home Health Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Support Center, where she coordinated and produced tools and resources for QIOs and home health agencies nationally. She has provided national presentations on many topic areas, especially related to best practices, immunizations and interventions to reduce avoidable acute care hospitalizations and quality improvement.

Barbara Huston, RN, BSN, COS-C has over 29 years of nursing experience ranging from nursing faculty in a community college to staff education in critical care. For the last 15 years she has worked in Home Health and Hospice as a staff nurse and then as a Quality Assurance Manager. She is currently a Performance Improvement Coordinator for Celtic Healthcare were her duties include regulatory guidance, policy and procedure development and education, quality improvement activities, safety and infection control preparedness and coordination, and staff education.

May 13, 2009

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