Infection Prevention Program Cost Analysis & Writing a Business Plan

Course Overview 

The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s advanced module, Infection Prevention Program Cost Analysis & Writing a Business Plan, provides infection prevention professionals with essential business strategies to support and sustain their programs. Participants will explore key concepts in cost analysis, estimate the financial burden of HAIs, and develop a compelling business plan to drive infection prevention initiatives forward.

Target Audience

Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are leading infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals with extensive knowledge of infection prevention and control concepts and considerable practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control.

Audience examples include expert infection preventionists and HAI/AR/IPC staff, expert healthcare or public health epidemiologists, and infection prevention program directors and medical directors.

Overall Learning Objectives

• Recognize the importance of assessing successes in economic terms and the types of data that a program needs to collect to demonstrate success to administrators
• Explain how to estimate attributable costs of HAIs based on best available data
• Describe components of a strong business plan for an infection prevention program

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing education (CE) credit is available for this course from 9/25/2023 to 9/25/2026. To claim credit, please watch this video in its entirety, then visit the VCU Continuing Medical Education activity page to obtain your credit.

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VIPTC’s Advanced Course in Infection Prevention and Control

The Advanced Course in Infection Prevention & Control is designed for those leading infection prevention efforts for their organizations and will focus on implementation science, epidemiologic methods for surveillance and basic biostatistical data analysis, interpretation of the literature for evidence-based practice, and leadership training.

Modules:

• Overview of Healthcare-Associated Infections
• Implementation Science
• Epidemiology Methods for Infection Prevention
• Infection Prevention Program Cost Analysis & Writing a Business Plan
• Leadership & Managing Change
• Emergency Preparedness
• Healthcare-Associated Infections National Quality Reporting
• The Science of Meetings and Effective Facilitation
• Performance and Quality Improvement in Infection Prevention
• Modifiable Risk Factors and Performance Measures
• Reading and Using Scientific Literature
• Sustaining and Adapting a Champion of Infection Prevention Team
• Facility Design, Construction, and Renovations and Infection Prevention
• Water Management