Day 1

Thursday, November 5, 2026

12:50-1:00 pm ET

Introduction and Welcome

1:00-2:00 pm ET

Hot off the Press: Updated Antibiotic Initiation Guidance

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. Guidance Overview
3. Breakout Room Activity
4. Share Back with Entire Group

Learning Objectives

1. Apply evidence-based criteria for initiating antibiotics in long-term care facilities
2. Implement standardized documentation and communication protocols to ensure consistent, guideline-congruent evaluation and antibiotic initiation for common infections
3. Identify facility specific opportunities to improve antibiotic prescribing

2:00-2:45 pm ET

Thinking "Upstream": Diagnostic Stewardship Strategies for Urinary Indications

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. Diagnostic Stewardship Strategies for Urinary Indications
3. Q+A

Learning Objectives

1. Differentiate asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) from true urinary tract infection based on clinical presentation and laboratory findings.
2. Identify the limitations of current diagnostic strategies used to detect UTI in older adults.
3. Collaborate with the interprofessional healthcare team to apply evidence-based strategies that limit unnecessary antibiotic use for asymptomatic bacteriuria in older adults.
4. Utilize antibiogram data to guide optimal empiric antibiotic prescribing decisions.

2:45-3:00 pm ET

Break

3:00-3:45 pm ET

Numbers That Matter: Using Data to Improve Stewardship in Nursing Homes

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. Numbers that Matter
3. Q+A

Learning Objectives

1. Describe importance of tracking and analyzing data in development of a successful antimicrobial stewardship program
2. Demonstrate practical steps that can be taken to incorporate data-driven antimicrobial stewardship interventions into existing Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program
3. Recognize the resources that are available to assist with implementing data driven antimicrobial stewardship programs

3:45-4:30 pm ET

Vaccinating the Village

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. Geriatrics
3. Psychology
4. QI and Implementation
5. Q+A Panel

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize current recommendations for flu, RSV and COVID-19 vaccines in LTC residents and HCP
2. Identify barriers to achieving high vaccine uptake
3. Apply evidence-based strategies to increase vaccine uptake

4:30-5:15 pm ET

Sepsis in Nursing Home Residents: Recognition, Response and Prevention

1. 2 minute introduction
2. Early Recognition of Sepsis in Older Adults: Practical Approaches for Nursing Home Clinicians
3. Strengthening Sepsis Response and Prevention in Nursing Home
4. Q+A Panel

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize the early signs and symptoms of sepsis including atypical presentations in older adults residing in nursing homes.
2. Describe systemic and facility-level challenges that may delay timely identification and response to sepsis in nursing home residents.
3. Discuss multidisciplinary strategies to improve sepsis recognition, communication, escalation of care, and prevention in nursing home settings.

Day 2

Friday, November 6, 2026

12:50-1:00 pm ET

Introduction and Welcome

1:00-1:45 pm ET

Barries to Environmental and Cleaning in LTC

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. Barriers
3. Q+A

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss critical elements of cleaning and disinfection in LTC
2. List lessons learned from an evaluation and intervention of environmental cleaning in long-term care
3. Share feasible, high yield interventions that facilities can implement to improve practice of environmental cleaning and reduce bacterial burden

1:45-2:30 pm ET

Enhanced Barrier Precautions

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. Are We Underusing, Misusing, or Overreaching?
3. Q+A

Learning Objectives

1. Compare and contrast the use of Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP) to Contact Precautions in skilled nursing facilities,
2. Apply CDC Enhanced Barrier Precautions guidance to identify appropriate nursing home residents for EBP differentiating targeted and epidemiologically important organisms, and
3. Make evidence-based decisions regarding EBP implementation based on facility specific risk assessments.

2:30-2:45 pm ET

Break

2:45-4:00 pm ET

When Superbugs Move In: Infection Prevention for Residents with Extreme Drug Resistance

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. IP with Extreme Drug Resistance
3. IP with Extreme Drug Resistance
4. Breakout Room Instructions
5. Breakout Room Activity
6. Share Back with Entire Group

Learning Objectives

1. Identify whether a particular microbe is an organism of concern for your facility
2. List infection prevention and management strategies and practices that long-term care facilities can follow to safely and effectively care for the residents colonized with extremely drug-resistant organism
3. Recognize the resources available to implement recommended IPC practices
4. Develop a plan to manage residents with extremely drug-resistant organism colonization in your facility

4:00-5:15 pm ET

Crossing the Care Continuum

1. 2 minute Introduction
2. Panel

Learning Objectives

1. List the key infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship elements that should be included in a care transition hand-off between long-term care facilities and hospitals
2. Identify strategies to address common communication gaps that occur during care transitions
3. Apply principles of successful inter-facility collaboration to reduce community-level MDRO burden in their own care settings

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