Infection Control Today - Healthcare-Associated Infections

New Wisconsin HAI Report Shows Improvements in 2012

The Wisconsin Division of Public Health’s annual Healthcare-Associated Infections Prevention Program report shows more healthcare facilities in the state met or exceeded the national standard for many infection rates in 2012. CLABSI SIR among reporting facilities was 0.44, ...More

3 weeks ago

Posted in News

New Hampshire HAI Report Shows Improvements in 2011

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) released the 2011 Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) Report based on data from the 31 hospitals in the state. Overall, statewide infection rates are showing ...More

April 15, 2013

Posted in News

Despite Decline in HAIs Consumers Union Says More Effort Needed to Protect Patients

A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the number of central line-associated bloodstream infections in hospitals nationwide has been reduced markedly. More modest reductions have been achieved in certain surgical site infections and ...More

February 12, 2013

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene

Hospitals Report Reductions in Some Types of HAIs

Hospitals in the U.S. continue to make progress in the fight against central line-associated bloodstream infections and some surgical site infections, according to a report issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Catheter-associated urinary ...More

February 11, 2013

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene

National Awards to Recognize Best Practices in Reducing or Eliminating HAIs

Teams of critical care professionals and healthcare institutions with a record of reducing or eliminating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are encouraged to submit their best practices to a national awards program. In the third year of this three-year initiative, the ...More

December 5, 2012

Posted in News, Policies and Practice

SHEA President Blogs About Behavior Change in Healthcare to Break Old Habits, Prevent HAIs

Today on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Safe Healthcare Blog, SHEA president Jan Patterson, MD, MS, discusses the importance of breaking old habits that contribute to healthcare-associated infections. She emphasizes that, although change is never ...More

October 25, 2012

Posted in News, Policies and Practice

Research to Analyze Acquired Infection Data on Tele-ICUs Compared to Hospitals

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded assistant research professor Lesly Kelly, PhD, RN, of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU), a two-year grant to study how tele-ICU systems affect hospital-acquired ...More

October 4, 2012

Posted in News

Progress Reported in Tackling Initial, Recurrent HAIs

Surgeons are making progress toward preventing initial and recurrent episodes of Clostridium difficile colitis, a vicious bacterial infection that is estimated to affect about 336,000 people each year, typically patients on antibiotics. Using mouse models, researchers at ...More

October 4, 2012

Posted in News

New Tools Help Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities Track and Prevent Infections

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have each released new tools and information to help track deadly healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in nursing homes and other long-term care settings. ...More

September 19, 2012

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

CDC Funds Help States Prevent HAIs

With funds made possible by the Affordable Care Act, all states that applied to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for infrastructure funds (49 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico), will receive funding to continue to implement strategies to protect ...More

September 7, 2012

Posted in News

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