The Department of Health and Human Services has posted an updated National Action Plan to eliminate healthcare-associated infections, which is open for public comment.
HHS first introduced its National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination in 2009. That plan included a three-phase roadmap to help acute-care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers and long-term care and end-stage renal disease facilities reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated infections and improve rates of influenza vaccinations among healthcare workers.
The HAI Action Plan has nine goals:
• 50 percent reduction in bloodstream infections
• 100 percent adherence to central line insertion practices
• 30 percent reduction in Clostridium difficile infections
• 30 percent reduction in Clostridium difficile hospitalizations
• 25 percent reduction in urinary tract infections
• 50 percent reduction in MRSA invasive infections (in the general population)
• 25 percent reduction in MRSA bacteremia
• 25 percent reduction in surgical site infections
• 95 percent adherence to surgical SCIP measures.
The update confirms progress in the effort to make healthcare safer and less costly by reducing preventable complications of care, including healthcare-associated infections. The request for public comments on the National Action Plan will be published in the Federal Register the week of April 23.
HHS first introduced its National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections: Roadmap to Elimination in 2009. That plan included a three-phase roadmap to help acute-care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers and long-term care and end-stage renal disease facilities reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated infections and improve rates of influenza vaccinations among healthcare workers.
The HAI Action Plan has nine goals:
• 50 percent reduction in bloodstream infections
• 100 percent adherence to central line insertion practices
• 30 percent reduction in Clostridium difficile infections
• 30 percent reduction in Clostridium difficile hospitalizations
• 25 percent reduction in urinary tract infections
• 50 percent reduction in MRSA invasive infections (in the general population)
• 25 percent reduction in MRSA bacteremia
• 25 percent reduction in surgical site infections
• 95 percent adherence to surgical SCIP measures.
The update confirms progress in the effort to make healthcare safer and less costly by reducing preventable complications of care, including healthcare-associated infections. The request for public comments on the National Action Plan will be published in the Federal Register the week of April 23.
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