2024 Theme:"Join The Fight" |
2025 Share Your Story Details will be released Spring 2025 so stay tuned! If you’re new to SYS, check out our 2024 Share Your Story details below.
Here are some key messages to guide your storytelling (not all-inclusive!):
Join a "X (Twitter) Storm" & promote ID Pharmacists Day at your institution!
ID pharmacists make a huge impact in engaging communities in antibiotic stewardship! #JoinTheAMSFight
Congratulations to the #IDPharmacistsDay “Share Your Story” Contest Grand Prize Winner, Lauren Biehle!
Lauren Biehle, PharmD: “The Colorado Antimicrobial Stewardship Endeavor (CASE) is a partnership initiated in 2021 between the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) & Children’s Hospital Colorado to provide mentorship & resources to support priorities for core element implementation in Colorado (CO) hospitals. Infectious diseases physicians and pharmacists provide workshops & consultations in antimicrobial stewardship (AS).
When reviewing hospital adherence to the core elements, we recognized the importance of additional support in critical access hospitals (CAH). I created an AS needs assessment for all hospitals in CO. Next, I developed a partnership with our State Office of Rural Health (ORH), which supports rural & CAH.
As the CDPHE Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacy Lead, I developed a curriculum aligned with the findings from the needs assessment in collaboration with CASE & the ORH that we titled the “CASE Collective”. This interactive series promotes peer-to-peer discussion for AS strategies in resource-limited communities. Our partner at the ORH strengthens our efforts through her relationships with the CAH. A challenge in designing this program was acknowledging the broad scope of work among stewards in CAH & the time for participation. However, the response from our CAH when proposing the series was a “resounding yes”!
Since 2023, 30 rural & CAH have joined in the quarterly sessions of the CASE Collective. In an evaluation of our outreach from a health equity lens, the majority of participating hospitals serve counties that have medium to high social vulnerability. We continue to expand our outreach each year through workshops, consultations, & support to empower our resource-limited settings."
The “runner up” stories were submitted by Megan Bernabe and Matt Davis.
Megan Bernabe, PharmD (@germerme): “I collaborated with our county health department and a multidisciplinary team at our institution to determine a process to increase HIV testing and appropriate follow-up in at risk patients seen in our emergency department.”
Matt Davis, PharmD (@MattDavis138): “Director of ID Pharmacy Services at @IDConnect1, @MattDavis138, turns his passion for antimicrobial stewardship into concrete results, educating communities and boosting rural hospitals' financial well-being while promoting stewardship within their communities.”