The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality use two different measurement systems to track the U.S. healthcare system’s rates of ...

MUNDELEIN, IL--(Marketwired - October 24, 2013) - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common hospital-acquired infection, and ...

This is an excerpt from the HCPro book, Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Second Edition. A variety of teams exist in the healthcare environment, and many of them can offer ...

SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital has been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review for not having any cases of catheter-associated ...

Changes in national reporting guidelines for catheter-associated urinary tract infections have significantly improved hospitals’ infection ratios since 2015, which offers an inaccurate depiction of ...

SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital was recognized for zero CAUTI infections in 2024, joining only 11 Wisconsin hospitals with this ...

Implementation of evidence-based prevention guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement could reduce the incidence of ...

Including senior leaders in CAUTI prevention is a critical aspect of the design and implementation of infection prevention programs. Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the upcoming book Preventing ...

UPMC Williamsport used a bundled approach to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. A Pennsylvania hospital's quality improvement initiative led to a rapid turnaround in ...

With financial penalties being assigned to hospitals for healthcare-associated infection rates, healthcare CFOs are increasingly looking more closely at their organizations’ infection rates and what ...