In yet another sign that infection control is becoming a national priority across a wide range of accreditors, regulators and state and federal agencies, the Joint Commission has created a new web portal to combine its full array of initiatives…
Tag Archives: heathcare associated infections (HAIs)
Low infection rates? Market it!
September 23, 2011 – 11:44 am
You knew it would come to this, as public reporting of healthcare associated infections becomes more common: Marketing! That’s right, hospitals are touting their low infection rates to potential customers while their less fortunate counterparts “peek and shriek” at the…
CMS changes: Glass half-full, but of what?
August 18, 2011 – 9:52 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services controversial 2008 policy to cut reimbursement for certain health care associated infections (HAIs) has led to positive clincial consequences — and some unintended ones. Overall, the first research assessment of the impact…
Achieving zero: Central line BSIs on endangered list
May 11, 2011 – 4:47 pm
The more some infection rates are driven down to absolute zero, the more disturbingly quaint appear all those old conversations about the inevitably of HAIs. The only thing inevitable about central line-associated bloodstream infections [CLABSIs] is that they are being…
The Achilles hand of infection prevention
March 2, 2011 – 1:35 pm
It seems only appropriate to begin HICprevent – Hospital Infection Control & Prevention’s new blog site – with a message near and dear to our hearts and hands. This Aug. 13th will mark 146 years since Ignaz Semmelweis – the…