Healthcare-associated Infections

Pennsylvania Activities to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections

Financial and/or technical support provided by CDC

Pennsylvania

Patients in Pennsylvania hospitals had 51 percent fewer central line-associated bloodstream infections in 2011 than would have been predicted. (SIR=0.49, What is this?)
The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting HAI data to CDC's NHSN:
- CLABSIs: 80.5%
- CAUTIs: 86.0%
- The number of facilities reporting SSIs: 171
- This state has done some type of validation effort for CLABSI and CAUTI.
Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
State health department and hospital association are involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
This state is training a CDC/CSTE fellow as a state or local HAI-focused epidemiologist
State has implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
State has implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
This state was selected for a 2011 CDC Prevention Epicenter program to support innovative approaches to reducing HAIs
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Adult and Pediatric Prevention Epicenter Network
  - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
State has implemented a VAP Prevention Collaborative
State is involved with antimicrobial stewardship activities
2012 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $20,000.00
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
2012 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) Funding Program Component (PC) funding amount: $275,000.00
- Activity: Improving Antimicrobial Use to Decrease Antimicrobial Resistance HAIs and Clostridium difficile Infections and Identify Cost-effective and Evidence-based Healthcare-associated Infections Intervention Strategies
2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,020,480
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)

Pennsylvania:

State Contact:

Ram Nambiar, MD, MPH
Acting, Director
Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Health & Welfare Building
625 Forster Street
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0701
Phone: (717) 787.3350
Fax: (717) 772.6975
sostroff@state.pa.us
Pennsylvania Department of Health

The information included in this map describes state HAI prevention efforts with financial and/or technical support provided by CDC. Please refer to state health department Web sites for information about additional HAI prevention efforts underway in each state.