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Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)

Hospital Compare Website Now Includes CLABSI Data

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announces today that its Hospital Compare website now includes central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) data reported from hospital ICUs to CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). In many places, ...More
Yesterday
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CLABSIs at Hospitals Disclosed Nationwide

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is now disclosing for the first time how hospitals across the country compare when it comes to central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units. CLABSI information for each hospital is ...More
2 weeks ago
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Bundles Emphasized as Part of a Multidisciplinary Team to Address CLABSIs, VAP and Sepsis

Multidisciplinary teamwork is especially critical as hospitals are increasingly following evidence-based practices and care improvement campaigns. ...More
December 7, 2011
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Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Prevention

The oncology unit at Seton Medical Center Austin, located in Austin, Texas, a member of Ascension Health, has achieved remarkable results reducing central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs). Since 2008, CLABSIs have decreased by 65 percent; the combined ...More
December 7, 2011
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C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Part of National Project to Reduce HAIs

The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital is among 80 hospitals taking part in a national effort to eradicate catheter-associated bloodstream infections among hospitalized pediatric patients. The effort by member hospitals of the National Association of ...More
September 29, 2011
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Pediatric Hospitals Save Lives With Central Line Hygiene and Maintenance

Following some basic rules of central line hygiene and maintenance, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and 87 other pediatric hospitals have, over five years, saved hundreds of patient lives and more than $100 million by preventing nearly 3,000 central line-related bloodstream ...More
September 16, 2011
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Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Provides Prevention Strategies to Reduce CLABSI

Data submitted by Pennsylvania hospitals in 2010 pinpoints timelines for prevention strategies for reducing and/or eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), according to information published in the September 2011 Pennsylvania Patient Safety ...More
September 1, 2011
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Checklist Program Reduces Infections, Saves Lives and Money

A quality improvement program that saves lives by dramatically reducing potentially lethal bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units across the state of Michigan also saves those hospitals an average of $1.1 million a year, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. ...More
August 22, 2011
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Illinois Hospitals Reporting Fewer Infections

Illinois Department of Public Health director Dr. Damon T. Arnold recently announced that overall, hospitals in Illinois reported fewer healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in 2010 compared to 2009. As part of its continual update of the Illinois Hospital Report Card and ...More
August 9, 2011
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PICC Team, Prevention Bundle Helped Decrease CLABSIs in the NICU

Investigators at McGill University Health Center in Montreal, Canada report that implementation of a dedicated inter-professional peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) team and a prevention bundle was successful in decreasing rates of CLABSI in the neonatal ...More
August 1, 2011
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