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The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is proposing new targets for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) as identified in the National Action Plan to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections: Road Map to Elimination (HAI Action Plan). The document identifies the HAI measures which are recommended for continued monitoring and target setting.

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 health care-acquired infections (HAIs) page presents updates on the latest techniques and strategies in the never-ending battle between infection preventionists and HAIs. Focusing on the latest in medical literature, we also present perspectives from the top infection preventionists and other medical experts in the country about how to put the growing knowledge of HAIs into use in the everyday world of infection prevention. Articles and videos often focus on methods to contain and control pathogens and multidrug-resistant organisms from spreading within the health care system.

Slide Show: HAI Action Plan 2020 Targets