2025 Fall Conference

Fall 2025 Conference

When: November 6-7, 2025
Where: Central Midwest Regional Carpenter's Conference Center (CMRCC), Greenwood, IN

Thank you to our sponsors!

LiquiTech Inc. – The Water Council

Location

Central Midwest Regional Carpenter's Conference Center (CMRCC)
771 Greenwood Springs Drive
Greenwood, IN 46143

Registration

Member: $150

Non-member: $200 (plus fees)

Vendor: $600 (plus fees)

Hotel Options

With low use of hotel blocks in the past, APIC-IN will not be contracting a block of rooms at a single hotel. Members are asked to reserve a room at the location of their choice and at their own convenience. Below is a list of hotels that are closest to CMRCC:

Holiday Inn Express and Suites Greenwood
Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis South
Home2Suites

Special Considerations

Masks are not currently required to be worn. Please consult this webpage for changes.

Don't forget to bring cash, check, or credit/debit card to purchase tickets for our educational support fundraiser and earn a chance to win gifts.

Please wear your facility ID badge while attending the conference.

APIC Indiana Members

Bring new and/or new handmade items to donate as gifts for the educational support fundraiser.

Donate to your region's basket. Contact your regional director(s) for more information.

Speaker Information

Click HERE for speaker bios!

Pre-Conference Opportunity: ICRA Training

Available to Infection Preventionists and Healthcare Decision Makers

The UBC 8-hour "Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA): Construction Trades Best Practices Awareness Training" will be available as a pre-conference training. This class is an opportunity to test-drive the training program and see first-hand if you would like to make it available to employees at your facility through a Patient Safety Partnership with UBC/CMRCC. Note that there is no cost/fee to form a Patient Safety Partnership with UBC/CMRCC or to utilize the ICRA Training Program. Upon successful completion of this class, you will receive a photo-ID badge, a hard-hat sticker, and certificate of completion. These ICRA credentials are valid for 4 years.

Earn 6 IPUs for attending!

Class Date/Time: Wednesday, November 5th at 8am

Cost/Fee: Free

Register Here (Note, during registering, you will be asked to provide a picture of yourself from the shoulders up. It will be used to create your photo-ID ICRA badge)

Registration ends on Tuesday, October 28th.

**Times and topics are subject to change. Website will be updated as information becomes available.**

Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time	Topic	Speaker
7:30am - 8:00am	Registration - Breakfast
8:30am - 8:45am	President's Welcome	Shanna Smith, BSN, MBA, RN, CIC
8:45am - 10:45am	Storytelling for Leadership in Healthcare: Inspiring Through Stories	Keynote Speaker Zach Matthews
10:45am - 11:00am	Break - Ticket Sales
11:00am - 12:00pm	Cold Water Risks: Why Legionella Isn't Just a Hot Water Problem	Dave Pierre Sponsored by LiquiTech
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch - Ticket Sales
1:00pm-2:00pm	Plumbing 101 for Infection Preventionists: Plumbing Systems, Equipment, and Challenges	Dave Pierre Sponsored by LiquiTech
2:00pm-3:15pm	Industry Partner Visits - Poster Presentations - Ticket Sales Vendors/Posters will be located in the CMRCC Training Center
3:15pm - 4:15pm	IDOH Immunization Updates	Dave McCormick

Friday, November 7, 2025
Time	Topic	Speaker
7:30am - 8:00am	Breakfast - Ticket Sales - Kick Off
8:00am - 9:00am	Approach to the Positive Urine Culture in LTC	Scott Steinecker, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, CIC
9:00am - 9:15am	Break - Ticket Sales
9:15am - 10:15am	Blastomycosis: An Evolving Pathogen	Scott Steinecker, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, CIC
10:15am - 11:30am	Industry Partner Visits - Poster Presentations Vendors/Posters will be located in the CMRCC Training Center
11:30am - 12:30pm	Lunch - Final Ticket Sales
12:30pm - 1:30pm	From Data to Daily Practice: Turning Infection Data into Safer Care	Annette Handy, RN, LSSBB, CHEST-T
1:30pm - 1:35pm	Break
1:35pm - 2:35pm	What! I Have to Cover Ambulatory Clinics Too?	Lori Getts, RN, BSN, IP, CHEP, CIC
2:35pm - 3:05pm	Educational Support Raffle
Conclusion of 2025 APIC Indiana Fall Conference - Safe travels home!

IDOH Poster Presentations
Topic	Presenter
Enteric Reporting Gaps Analysis Between 2021-2024	Jenna Nicodemus, MPH
NBS Questions	Kyra Veatch, MPH
Project Firstline Resources for the Aqueous Environment	Aubrey West, MHA