IC 201 picks up where the basics leave off. It assumes the attendee already knows what the rules say, and spends the day on the harder question of how to actually build, run, and defend an infection prevention program in an ambulatory surgery center — from the annual risk assessment through the moment a surveyor walks through the door.

This is the coordinator’s track. The people who need it are the ones whose name is on the program: the Infection Preventionist who has held the role for a year or more and has discovered that knowing the regulation is not the same as having a defensible risk assessment, a working surveillance system, an SSI investigation that produces corrective action, or a training program that proves competency rather than attendance. Each of those is a deliverable, and each one is what a surveyor asks to see.

The program is organized as a complete arc through the coordinator’s year. Session 1 builds the risk assessment every other part of the program traces back to. Session 2 turns those priorities into ongoing surveillance. Session 3 handles the post-op infection when it arrives. Session 4 sustains the workforce education that prevents the next one. Session 5 addresses the reprocessing step most centers get wrong before instruments ever reach SPD. Session 6 closes the loop by walking the CMS surveyor worksheet domain by domain, so the attendee sees the center the way a surveyor will.

Nothing here is borrowed from the hospital world; every tool is sized for an ASC’s staffing, rooms, and scope of service. The 2026 edition runs a full eight education hours and folds in what has changed since the last edition: DNV as the fifth CMS-approved ASC accreditor; Candida auris, measles, mpox, and H5N1 added to the risk assessment content; the EPA pathogen-specific lists K, N, P, and Q matched to the threat; ANSI/AAMI ST108 water quality; and current NHSN, AORN, and AAMI editions throughout.

Every session closes with applied work, so the day produces artifacts rather than notes — a scored risk assessment, an audit tool, a completed root-cause checklist, a training matrix, a point-of-use audit, and a self-survey against Exhibit 351.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 8:00 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time · Delivered live and virtually, with on-demand access to every recorded session afterward.

Total program time: 9 hours 15 minutes elapsed · 8.0 education contact hours, exclusive of the 60 minutes of scheduled breaks and the 15-minute opening housekeeping block. Every session reserves its final 15 to 20 minutes for applied work and questions.

Each session carries its own stated objectives. Taken in sequence, they form the complete foundation for directing an ASC infection prevention program.

By the close of the program, the attendee will be able to run the infection prevention program as an operating system rather than a binder — and to show a surveyor the evidence for every part of it. Specifically, the attendee will be able to:

• Build and score a defensible infection control risk assessment using a consistent tool that survives survey scrutiny, and refresh it annually or whenever services and community threats shift.
• Translate the highest-scoring risks into QAPI indicators with a numerator, denominator, and target, then re-score after intervention.
• Distinguish surveillance from a point-in-time audit, and stand up ongoing observation of the practices most often cited and most likely to harm.
• Construct audit tools that define compliance against a named standard or IFU, and collect data unannounced through trained observers.
• Route surveillance findings where they belong — QAPI, the governing body, NHSN, and the current ASCQR measure set through QualityNet.
• Classify a surgical site infection correctly using current CDC / NHSN definitions and the right 30-day or 90-day surveillance window.
• Run a structured post-op infection investigation end to end, examine the modifiable factors where prevention actually lives, and document it inside the peer-review structure.
• Reach every audience the training obligation covers — staff, providers, vendors and contractors, and patients — at the right frequency, and prove competency rather than attendance.
• Perform and audit point-of-use treatment correctly, explain why sterile water and never saline, and meet the transport requirements for instruments and flexible endoscopes.
• Self-survey against the current CMS Exhibit 351 worksheet, tell condition-level from standard-level exposure, and audit your own IUSS log before a surveyor does.
• Leave holding the artifacts built during the applied segments — a scored risk assessment, an audit tool, a root-cause checklist, a training matrix, a point-of-use audit, and a completed Exhibit 351 self-survey.