Colorectal Surgical Site Infection Project Saves More Than $3.7M

The Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare announced a project to reduce colorectal surgical site infections avoided 135 SSIs, resulting in more than $3.7 million in savings.

The project spanned two-and-a-half years and included seven hospitals: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles; Cleveland Clinic; Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Minn.) Methodist Hospital; North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Great Neck, N.Y.; Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago; OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill.; and Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Palo Alto, Calif.

Click here to read the full story on the SSI project in Becker's ASC Review.

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