The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has enacted more than $1 trillion in Medicaid reductions over the next decade. As reimbursement tightens and patients arrive later with more advanced conditions, the cost of preventable, non-reimbursable infections is climbing.
Waterborne pathogens — including pseudomonas, legionella and mycobacteria — are a significant and often underestimated driver of hospital-acquired infections. Yet many hospitals are still operating under decades-old water quality standards that experts say may no longer reflect the current evidence, tolerating positivity thresholds that growing research suggests are too permissive.
This session cuts through the complexity. Water safety experts walk through the root causes of poor water quality, the shifting standards landscape and what a prospective approach to waterborne pathogen management looks like in practice.
You will learn:
- How standards for waterborne pathogens are evolving and what that means for your facility
- Root causes of poor water quality and their clinical and financial consequences
- Methods hospitals are using to move from reactive to prospective water treatment
- How better water management can lower long-term treatment costs and reduce infection risk
