Kickoff Webinar at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 31: Hospital Bed Capacity Project
(July 18, 2025) – A webinar will be hosted to introduce Kansas hospitals to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network Connectivity Initiative: Hospital Bed Capacity Project. This webinar will provide an overview of the project and discuss technical specifics of how hospitals can participate in this opportunity.
Presentations will be given by representatives from KDHE's Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance and Preparedness Sections, along with the implementation team from the EMResource vendor, Juvare. They plan to have time for a question-and-answer session and look forward to a good discussion.
Attendants should include persons from Kansas hospitals who can make decisions about connecting Application Programming Interfaces and other similar methods to their Electronic Health Records to automate hospital bed capacity data transfer. They also invite infection preventionists and hospital leadership personnel who are interested in this project. Find more information and register for the NHSN Connectivity Initiative Webinar. If you have questions or need other connection information, email Larry Van Der Wege at lvanderwege@kha-net.org.
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--Larry Van Der Wege