Remote Surveillance Supports Your Infection Prevention Team.

Premier's Remote Surveillance service gives your organization access to experienced, CIC-certified infection preventionists (IPs) who support accurate, timely infection surveillance—helping your team maintain continuity, reduce burden and focus on protecting patients.

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Support When and How You Need It.

IP departments are balancing increasing surveillance and reporting demands with limited time and resources. Whether you need short-term coverage during staffing shortages or a long-term partner to manage surveillance activities, Premier can help extend your infection prevention team without adding pressure to internal resources.

Certified expertise: Work with experienced, CIC-certified infection preventionists who understand the complexity of hospital-acquired infection (HAI) review, investigation and documentation.
Flexible coverage: Address staffing gaps or workload spikes and support newer IPs or multi-site complexity with ongoing surveillance needs with a support model tailored to your organization.
Greater continuity: Maintain consistent processes and meet required surveillance obligations even when internal capacity changes.
More time for prevention: Free your IP leaders for hands-on clinical work so they can focus on education, performance improvement and driving prevention strategies that reduce infection risk.

Our service is electronic health record (EHR)- and surveillance tool-agnostic, allowing Premier to support organizations across different technology environments. This helps reduce the day-to-day burden of infection surveillance while supporting consistency, quality and confidence across your HAI review process.

Immediate Support. Long-Term Partnership.

Partner with Premier for remote surveillance support

We work collaboratively with hospital and infection prevention leadership to determine the right level of support for your organization—whether you are filling a short-term gap or permanently outsourcing surveillance activities.

In the near term, remote surveillance helps

Capture HAIs earlier through daily review
Remove the burden of manual data review
Comply with NHSN reporting requirements

Over time, it strengthens your ability to

Standardize surveillance across every site
Mentor and support IPs early in their careers
Adapt quickly to changing practice standards
Build a more resilient, better-supported IP program

This is a data-driven foundation for stronger infection prevention.

"The Premier Clinical Consultant was able to act as a surveillance mentor to novice Infection Preventionists, which allowed us to standardize our surveillance processes and ultimately make our program stronger."

Julie McCord System Director of Infection Prevention, North Mississippi Health Services

Discover how the partnership between North Mississippi Health Services and Premier empowered their IPs to act faster to prevent infections with the support of Premier data.

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Meet Our IPs

Every member of our U.S.-based team brings a minimum of 10 years of experience.

Kristen Bueby MPH, RD/LD, CIC, CPH, CPHQ

Kristen Bueby is a board-certified Infection Preventionist with a Master of Public Health degree and over 20 years of experience in healthcare. She began her clinical career as a Registered and Licensed Dietitian in acute care before transitioning to Infection Prevention upon completing her MPH and has worked in the field for nearly 15 years, with particular interest in NHSN surveillance and reporting, outbreak investigation and quality improvement. She currently assists TheraDoc members with surveillance, training, and issue resolution.

Elizabeth Curnow MPH, MEd, DrPH, CIC, FAPIC

Elizabeth Cumow is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology and a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, with over 20 years of experience in healthcare spanning public health, academia and research in Epidemiology and Infection Prevention. She holds a Doctoral degree in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health, a master's degree in Public Health (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from George Washington University and a Master of Education degree from Wayland Baptist University.

Chris Einspahr MSc, BS, BS, MLSC, CIC

Chris Einspahr is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology (CIC) and a certified Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS(CM)), with over 20 years of experience in healthcare spanning multiple roles in clinical microbiology and acute care infection prevention. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology from the University of Houston and Clinical Laboratory Science from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center School of Health Professions, as well as a Master of Science degree in Infectious Diseases from the University of London.

Jennifer Hernandez MS, CIC

Jennifer Hernandez is board-certified in Infection Prevention (CIC) with a master's degree in Epidemiology from Michigan State University and over 20 years of experience in healthcare. She has been with Premier since 2012, providing clinical consulting to TheraDoc Infection Prevention and Pharmacy members, performing remote surveillance and teaching eUniversity courses.

Susan Hudson RN, BSN, MPH, CIC, LHRM, FAPIC

Susan Hudson is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology and a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare. She began her career as a volunteer in high school and went on to earn a Bachelor of Nursing to become a Registered Nurse, followed by a Master of Public Health and additional graduate study at Nova Southeastern University's law school in Florida; she is also licensed in Healthcare Risk Management in Florida. Her varied patient care experience spans neurology, home health, nurse recruitment and long-term care, as well as work as an appeals nurse and medical malpractice defense legal nurse consultant.

Karen Kistner MPH, CIC, CHES

Karen Kistner is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology and a certified health education specialist, with a career spanning roles as an epidemiologist in state health departments and in infection prevention at acute care hospitals. She holds bachelor's degrees in Biology and Psychology from the University of Rochester and a Master of Public Health from George Washington University. She currently serves as a Clinical Consultant with Premier Inc., supporting infection practitioners, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in optimizing workflows and improving patient care and outcomes through clinical surveillance tools.

Anne Kithcart MSN, CIC

Anne Kithcart is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology, with over 20 years of experience in acute care and in-patient rehabilitation settings. She received her bachelor's degree in nursing from West Texas A&M University and her master's degree in nursing from American Sentinel University and has experience working with multiple electronic medical record and surveillance systems. She currently works as a Clinical Consultant for Premier Inc.

Dominique Parker MPH, MS, CIC

Dominique Parker is a board-certified Infection Preventionist with over 10 years of experience in public health and epidemiology, specializing in infection prevention and control. She received her bachelor's degree in Biology from Spelman College and her master's degree in Public Health, with a concentration in Epidemiology, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and has experience working with multiple electronic medical record and surveillance systems.

Eileen Yaeger PhD, MPH, BSMT, CIC

Eileen Yaeger is a board-certified Infection Preventionist with 40 years of experience spanning clinical and hospital laboratory science, reference laboratory science, clinical healthcare management, infection prevention, public health and clinical consulting. She holds a Doctoral degree in Public HealthEpidemiology, a master's degree in Public Health (Epidemiology), and a bachelor's degree in Medical Technology.

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