October 9-11, 2009 

Inn at Ellis Square
Savannah, GA

YOU

are invited to attend the

Georgia ACHSA Conference

The meeting will open with a social hour, dinner and speaker on Friday evening.

Presentations are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Saturday afternoon will be kept free to allow everyone to explore historic Savannah.

A dinner and speaker will highlight Saturday evening.

The hotel is located in the heart of historic Savannah, adjacent to River Street and City Market.

Single/double room rate $119. Reservations: (912) 236-4440 or (877) 542-7666.

The hotel has a free breakfast 7:00 – 10:00 am each morning.

Parking in the hotel garage is $9 per day with unlimited in/out. Parking at meters on the street is free after 5 PM and on weekends.

The room rates are available 2 days before and 2 days after meeting dates. 

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Conference Program

ACHSA: Teaching Us How 

Preliminary Program

FRIDAY October 9

3:00 - 6:30 pm Registration

6:30 - 7:30 pm Welcome Reception / Exhibits

7:30 pm Sponsored dinner program: Establishing a Functional Pharmaceutical System in Corrections
Deborah Stewart, RN, MSN, CCHP, Health Services Administrator, Liberty County Jail
Co-sponsored by Diamond Pharmacy Services and CorrectHealth

SATURDAY October 10

8:00 - 9:00 am Training Correctional Staff to Recognize and Respond to Excited Delirium
Paul J. Morris, RN, Health Services Administrator, Muscogee County Jail

9:00  - 10:30 am CDC Update: Corrections Consultation; Current HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities; STD Gonorrhea Screening Project; Viral Hepatitis 317 Project
Laurie C. Reid, MS, RN, Captain, U.S. Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Samantha Williams, PhD; CDC, Hope King, MPH, CDC; Lt. Commander Robin McGowan, MPH, CDC; Charlotte Kent, PhD, CDC 

10:30- 11:30 am CQI: What and Why - Improving Clinical Care
Martha Gentry, RN

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Evaluating Chest Pain in Corrections: Risk Stratification – How to use bedside troponin testing
Corliss Jackson, MSN; Triffy Pacitti, MSN, FNP-C, Vice President of Clinical Services, CorrectHealth 

12:30 - 6:00 pm Lunch on your own and FREE TIME!

4:30 - 5:30 pm Georgia ACHSA member meeting

6:00 pm Sponsored dinner program: iCHAARTS: Interactive Cases in HAART
Steven Harris, RPh, CPh, Director of Pharmacy Service, Corrections Health Service, Miami, FL
Location: Savannah History Museum
Invitation by Fran Kalafatis, Bristol-Myers Squibb

SUNDAY October 11

8:00 - 9:30 am Crisis Intervention Training Using Proven Techniques – How to defuse emotionally charged inmates through CIT techniques
Vanessa Newton, RN; Tina McGee, LPN 

9:45 - 10:45 am Nursing Skills for Managing the Mentally Ill in Corrections
Inez Tann, RN, CCHP, Program Manager GDOC, Atlanta Regional Office

10:45 - 11:00 am Latest H1N1 Information
John R. Miles, MPA, Management Consultant, McKing Corporation, Senior Operations Coordinator, H1N1 Community Measures Task Force, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention