Live Webinar: Thursday, September 17th, 2026 - 10:00-11:00(CST)

Learn how to improve high-level disinfection and infection prevention across your facility. Explore regulatory requirements, common compliance gaps, and best practices for cleaning, transport, and storage of ultrasound probes. Gain practical strategies to reduce risk, improve consistency, and strengthen patient safety.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
1. Understand the Joint Commission and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) requirements related to reprocessing and infection prevention.
2. Describe common regulatory citations and barriers to compliance in relation to high-level disinfection & sterilization, transport and storage of ultrasound probes, scopes and surgical instrumentation. 
3. Describe solutions to common barriers to patient safety concerns and compliance issues related to high-level disinfection, sterilization, manual cleaning, storage and transport.

Speaker Bio

Jill Holdsworth, CIC, AL-CIP, FAPIC, NREMT, CRCST, CHL

Jill earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from West Virginia Wesleyan College and her Master of Science in Exercise Physiology from Marshall University, launching her career as a Cardiac Rehabilitation Therapist. She began her work in Infection Prevention in 2009, achieved Certification in Infection Control (CIC) in 2010, and was named a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) in 2016. Jill has held several leadership positions within local APIC chapters, including serving as President of the Washington, DC chapter. She has also contributed at the national level as a member of the APIC Board of Directors and as Co-Chair of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Protective Barriers Committee. Currently, Jill serves on the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA) Certification Council. She is presently the Medical Affairs Manager for CS Medical.

Eligible for 1 CE