The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is devoted to protecting patients and health care personnel from adverse health care events and promoting safety, quality, and value in the provision of health services. The CDC's mission in terms of health care safety includes tracking infections, responding to outbreaks, providing guidance and expertise in infection prevention, implementing prevention interventions in collaboration with partners, spearheading preventive research, and acting as the country's reference microbiological laboratory for pathogens that are most often involved in acute respiratory infections. The CDC's National Health Security Network (NHSN), the most widely used HAI surveillance system in the country, is a shared resource for the prevention of HAIs. More than 38,000 hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other active health centers provide data to the NHSN, which in turn is used for national and state analyses, including this HAI report, and for specific prevention initiatives by health centers, states, regions, quality groups, and national public health agencies, including the CDC. Every day, approximately one out of every 31 U.
S. patients and 1 in 43 nursing home residents contract at least one infection related to their health care, underscoring the need for improved patient care practices in the United States. While much progress has been made, much more needs to be done to prevent health-care-associated infections in a variety of settings. The full participation of local, state, and federal public health agencies and their partners in the health sector through initiatives such as prevention collaborations is vital to maintaining and expanding progress in the surveillance and prevention of infectious infections. CDC will continue its prevention, monitoring, laboratory, and applied research activities to push the country toward the goal of eliminating communicable infections. National and state fact sheets are available on the patient safety portal on antibiotic resistance: 26%.
The national and state data included in this report are shown separately for intensive care hospitals (ACH), critical access hospitals (CAH), long-term intensive care hospitals (LTACH), and inpatient rehabilitation centers (IRFs, including CMS-certified IRF units within a hospital). The SIRs for difficult lip events included applicable samples classified as hospital-onset (i.e., community-onset cases are reported to the NHSN and are included in the LaBID event risk adjustment (SIR). We thank infection prevention specialists, hospital epidemiologists, and other dedicated staff members in hospitals and health departments who work to support surveillance and prevention measures for HAI. This report was prepared by the staff of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC's Health Care Quality Promotion Division. Terms and topics from the CDC National and State Health Care-Associated Infections Progress Report can be reviewed on our Privacy Policy page.
While significant progress has been made in preventing some types of health-care-associated infections, much remains to be done. On any given day, approximately one in 31 hospitalized patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. Now Tarrant County is part of a multi-phase federal plan to end new HIV infections in 10 years. Access to these services is provided through a partnership with Tarrant County Juvenile Justice. The 26% Medicare Centers for Medicaid Services require that all hospital patients be under the care of a doctor and that nursing care be provided 24 hours a day.
The community interface component on healthcare-associated infections of CDC's EIP involves a network of state health departments and their academic medical center partners to help answer fundamental questions about the emerging threats of HAI, advanced infection tracking methods, and antibiotic resistance in the United States. In partnership with Mental Health America of Greater Tarrant County (MHA) along with local police departments, the LOSS team provides local outreach to suicide survivors. Tarrant County is one of 48 counties that the federal government has identified in the plan to eliminate new HIV infections. The federal plan, which was announced in President Donald Trump's State of the Union address aims to put the drug PrEP into the hands of people who need it. The Community Center is a walk-in mental health center where people find community, purpose, and empowerment in a social setting. Compared to years before the pandemic hospitals across the country experienced more hospitalizations than usual as well as shortages of health personnel and equipment which may have led to deterioration of several patient safety indicators since the beginning of the pandemic. Aggregate data reported to the National Health Security Network (NHSN) by all centers during a reference period is used to “predict the number of infections that are expected to occur in a hospital state or country”.
This system is known as Coordinated Access System (CAS) governed by main agency Tarrant County Homeless Coalition (TCHC).In this report MRSA data includes all laboratory-identified hospital-derived MRSA bacteremia (bloodstream infections) reported to National Health Security Network at all hospitalization centers. LabID event surveillance also excludes events from neonatal intensive care units and infant wellness units.
