Event Detail


Webinar: Back to Basics: How to Navigate Communicable Disease Outbreaks in Your Facility | AL/ESF/SNF

Thursday, March 2, 2023

COURSE OVERVIEW

Join Cassie Prather, Epidemiologist, Department of Health (DOH), as she explains what to do when your facility is in outbreak and what steps you should take to be best prepared. Cassie will also provide resources and educate attendees on where to locate and interpret information regarding disease on the DOH website.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

$39 per facility              WHCA Member Rate

$78 per facility              Non-WHCA Member Rate

You may have as many people join in as you would like—one phone/computer may log in per registration! Please register only one person for the webinar unless a second individual plans to log in from a separate location.

Login and dialing instructions will be emailed on the day prior to the webinar.

Two CEUs will be granted to each individual who completes the live webinar presentation.

SPEAKER

Cassie Prather is an MPH graduate from Eastern Washington University who has had the privilege of working as an intern during graduate school and then transitioning to a full time Epidemiologist at the Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) post-graduation. In January of 2022, Cassie took a job as an Epidemiologist with the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) on the Healthcare Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Resistance team assisting the Infection Prevention and Education and Guidance team.

As an Epidemiologist at both SRHD and DOH Cassie have worked very closely with long term care facilities and other medical facilities assisting in outbreak management and infection control issues.

Outside of work Cassie enjoys many things outdoors such running, hiking, skiing, traveling and lots of lake time in the summer. She is a proud dog owner of a six-year-old chocolate lab named Charlie who loves her tennis ball!