Poster deadline is this Friday for “Third Annual Sepsis Conference”

Posted by Chris Wilson | Date: May 29th, 2024 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Baylor Scott & White Health, Children's Health System, Community Health, Conference, cook children's, DFWHC Foundation, educational event, educational meeting, fort worth, infection awareness, JPS Health Network, Methodist Health System, networking, Nurses, nursing education, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Patient Safety, poster abstracts, Safety, sepsis, Sepsis Alliance, sepsis strike force, Septicemia, Tarrant County, Texas Health Resources, ut southwestern medical center

Time is running out! The poster abstract submission deadline is this Friday for the DFW Hospital Council Foundation’s “Third Annual Sepsis Conference.” The event itself is Wednesday, September 11 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus in Fort Worth.

Poster abstracts can be downloaded here.

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Please note the Sepsis Conference is pre-registration only. Through July 31, early-bird tickets are available for only $35. After August 1, cost is $45 per person. Tickets are going fast and the fee includes breakfast and lunch provided by Jason’s Deli.

This year’s event will be themed “Strike Out Sepsis,” with speakers and agenda to be announced soon.

You can register here.

The event is hosted by the Sepsis Strike Force. Coordinated by Patti Taylor, director of quality and patient safety at the DFWHC Foundation, the group was formed in 2017 with the intention of providing evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols and best practices regarding sepsis. The group’s membership includes representatives from Baylor Scott & White Health, Children’s Health, Cook Children’s, JPS Health Network, Methodist Health System, Parkland Health, Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern.

For questions, please contact Patti at ptaylor@dfwhcfoundation.org.

JPS Health Network will provide continuing education credits.

JPS HEALTH NETWORK IS ACCREDITED AS A PROVIDER OF NURSING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY THE AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTERS COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION. THIS ACTIVITY IS JOINTLY PROVIDED BY JPS HEALTH NETWORK AND THE DFW HOSPITAL COUNCIL FOUNDATION.