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California
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 99%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State is training a CDC/CSTE fellow as a state or local HAI-focused epidemiologist
- One of 10 state health departments in the Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) network*
- States that have implemented a CAUTI Prevention Collaborative
- States that have implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- States that have implemented a MRSA Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a VAP Prevention Collaborative
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act (EIP) funding amount: $458,366
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act (ELC) funding amount: $2,596,434
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (for more information see EIP ELC Activities Funded)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $771,472
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure and HAI Prevention Initiatives (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
- Lynn Janssen, MS, CIC
Coordinator, HAI Liaison Program (ARRA Grant)
Healthcare-associated Infections Program
Center for Health Care Quality
California Department of Public Health
850 Marina Bay Parkway, Bldg E
Richmond CA 94804 - Phone: (510) 307-8652
- California Department of Public Health Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) Program
Connecticut
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 71%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- One of 10 state health departments in the Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) network*
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a MDRO Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a MRSA Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act (EIP) funding amount: $338,531
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act (ELC) funding amount: $878,049
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see EIP ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $69,980
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
- Richard Melchreit, MD
Coordinator, healthcare-associated Infections Program
Connecticut Department of Public Health - Phone: (860) 509-7833
- Richard.Melchreit@ct.gov
- Connecticut Department of Public Health
Florida
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 82%
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- State has implemented a CAUTI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a Prevention Collaborative for LTC Facilities
- States has implemented a MDRO Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,743,280
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $421,472
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure and HAI Prevention Initiatives (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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A.C. (Anne-Carol) Burke, M.A.
Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention Program Manager
Florida Department of Health,
Bureau of Epidemiology - Phone: 850-766-7547
- 24-hour Reporting Line: (850) 245-4401,
- AC_Burke@doh.state.fl.us
- Florida Department of Health - Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention Program
Illinois
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 80%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is 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
- This state was selected for a 2011 CDC Prevention Epicenter program to support innovative approaches to reducing HAIs
- Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter
- Cook County Health & Hospital System
- Rush University Medical Center
- Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter
- State has implemented a CAUTI Prevention Collaborative.
- State has implemented two C. diff Prevention Collaboratives.
- This state is part of an HHS study evaluating MDROs on environmental surfaces in healthcare facilities*
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $853,443
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $779,616
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure, HAI Prevention Initiatives and Antimicrobial Use Surveillance (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
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Erica Abu-Ghallous, MSN, MPH, RN
Division of Patient Safety and Quality
Illinois Department of Public Health
122 S. Michigan Avenue 7th Floor, Chicago, IL 60603
- Phone: (312) 814-2915
Fax: (312) 814-1953 - erica.abughallous@illinois.gov
- Illinois Department of Public Health
Iowa
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 61%
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- State has implemented a CAUTI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $880,622
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Mary Rexroat, RN BS
Nurse Epidemiologist
Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology
ADPER | Iowa Department of Public Health
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075 - Phone:
(515) 418-2685
Fax: (515) 281-5698 - mary.rexroat@idph.iowa.gov
- Iowa Department of Health HAI website
Louisiana
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 39.8%
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI.
- State has implemented two CLABSI Prevention Collaboratives.
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $647,083
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $47,553
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Erica Washington
Public Health Epidemiologist
1450 Poydras St., Ste. 2162
New Orleans, LA 70112 - Phone: (504) 568-8319
Fax: (504) 548-8290 - Erica.Washington@LA.gov
Maine
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 100%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a Hand Hygiene Collaborative
- State has implemented a MRSA Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a MDRO Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $966,787
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Peg Shore
HAI Prevention Coordinator
DHHS/Maine CDC
Division of Infectious Disease
286 Water Street, 8th floor
11 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04330-0011 - Phone: (207) 287-6028
Fax: (207) 287-8186 - 1-800-821-5821 24-hour Reporting Line
- Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Michigan
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 75.4%
- State health department is 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 CAUTI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a MDRO Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a MRSA Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $685,729
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $782,173
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure, HAI Prevention Initiatives and Antimicrobial Use Surveillance (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
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Jennie L. Finks, DVM, MVPH
Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiologist and Team Lead
Surveillance of Healthcare-associated and Resistant Pathogens (SHARP) Unit
Surveillance and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (SIDE) Section
Michigan Department of Community Health
Capitol View Building, 5th floor
201 Townsend St
Lansing, MI 48913 - Phone: (517) 335-9547
Fax: (517) 335-8263 - FinksJ@michigan.gov
- Michigan Department of Community Health
New Hampshire
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 100%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is 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 CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a Hand Hygiene Collaborative
- State has implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $737,551
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Katrina E. Hansen, M.P.H.
Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Coordinator
Infectious Disease Surveillance Section
NH Department of Health and Human Services
29 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301-6504 -
Phone: (603) 271-8325
Fax: (603) 271-0545 - Katrina.Hansen@dhhs.state.nh.us
- New Hampshire Department of Health
New Mexico
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 64.3%
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- One of 10 state health departments in the Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) network*
- States has implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a Prevention Collaborative for LTC Facilities*
- EIP funding amount: $403,465
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,099,998
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
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Joan Baumbach, MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Bureau Chief
New Mexico Department of Health
1190 St. Francis Drive, Suite N1350
PO Box 26110
Santa Fe, NM 87505 - Phone: (505) 827-0011
- Fax: (505) 827-0013
- joan.baumbach@state.nm.us
- New Mexico Department of Health
North Carolina
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 84%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- State has implemented CDC injection safety initiatives and participates in the One and Only Campaign
- State has implemented a CAUTI Prevention Collaborative
- States has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a Prevention Collaborative for LTC Facilities*
- This state was selected for a 2011 CDC Prevention Epicenter program to support innovative approaches to reducing HAIs
- Duke University Prevention Epicenter
- Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- Duke University Prevention Epicenter
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,659,130
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $339,277
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure and HAI Prevention Initiatives (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Connie Jones, RN, CIC
HAI Project Coordinator - Raleigh Office (919) 733-9560
- Winston-Salem Office (336) 771-4641 ext 217
- constance.d.jones@dhhs.nc.gov
- North Carolina Division of Public Health
Maryland
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 71%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- One of 10 state health departments in the Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) network*
- State has implemented a Hand Hygiene Collaborative
- State has implemented a Prevention Collaborative for LTC Facilities
- State has implemented a MDRO Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- This state is part of an HHS study evaluating MDROs on environmental surfaces in healthcare facilities*
- State is involved with antimicrobial stewardship activities
- EIP funding amount: $394,129
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,258,613
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see EIP ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $66,853
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contacts:
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Katherine Feldman, DVM, MPH, Principal Investigator, ELC
Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Outbreak Response
Infectious Disease and Environmental Health Administration
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - KFeldman@dhmh.state.md.us
- Lucy E. Wilson, MD, Sc.M
Chief, Center for Surveillance, Infection Prevention and Outbreak Response
Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Outbreak Response
Infectious Disease and Environmental Health Administration
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - lewilson@dhmh.state.md.us
Massachusetts
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 86%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- This state was selected for a 2011 CDC Prevention Epicenter program to support innovative approaches to reducing HAIs
- Translation Prevention Research Epicenter
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Wellesley, Mass.
- Translation Prevention Research Epicenter
- State has implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,599,587
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $521,472
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure and HAI Prevention Initiatives (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
-
Eileen McHale
Patient Safety Ombudsman
Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction
99 Chauncy Street
Boston, MA 02111-1703 - Phone: (617) 753-7324
- Eileen.mchale@state.ma.us
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Oklahoma
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 48.1%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,238,301
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Vonnie Meritt, RN, MPH
Director of Quality Initiatives
Oklahoma State Department of Health
1000 NE 10th
Oklahoma City, OK 73117 -
Phone: (405) 271-9444, ext. 57330
Fax: (405) 271-1308 - VonnieM@health.ok.gov
- Oklahoma Department of Health
Oregon
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 92%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- One of 10 state health departments in the Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) network*
- State has implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
- EIP funded amount: $341,258
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $724,228
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see EIP ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $426,524
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure and HAI Prevention Initiatives (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
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Jeanne Negley, MBA
HAI Prevention Coordinator
Oregon Health Authority
Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research
1225 Ferry Street SE, 1st Floor
Salem, OR 97301 -
Phone: (503) 373-1793
Fax: (503) 378-5511 - Jeanne.Negley@state.or.us
- Oregon.gov Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention
- Oregon Health Policy and Research
Pennsylvania
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 100%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is 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.
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Adult and Pediatric Prevention Epicenter Network
- State is involved with antimicrobial stewardship activities
- 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)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Stephen Ostroff, MD
Acting, Physician General
Pennsylvania Department of Health
625 Forster Street, Room 933
Health and Welfare Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120 - Phone: (717) 787.3350
Fax: (717) 772.6975 - sostroff@state.pa.us
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
South Carolina
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 96%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- This state trained a CDC/CSTE fellow as a state or local HAI-focused epidemiologist
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $201,830
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information) (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
2600 Bull Street,
Columbia, SC 29201 - Phone: (803) 898-3432
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Tennessee
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 79%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- This state trained a CDC/CSTE fellow as a state or local HAI-focused epidemiologist
- One of 10 state health departments in the Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) network*
- State has implemented a C. diff Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a Prevention Collaborative for LTC Facilities
- State has implemented a MDRO Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a MRSA Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
- EIP Funded Amount: $354,212
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,746,164
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $768,006
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure, HAI Prevention Initiatives and Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
- Marion A. Kainer MD, MPH, FRACP
Medical Epidemiologist/ Infectious Diseases Physician Director
Hospital Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program
Tennessee Department of Health
CEDS, 1st Floor, Cordell Hull Bldg
425, 5th Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37243
Texas
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 67.9%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- State has implemented a CAUTI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- States that have implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,233,977
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA):
- State of Texas funding: $273,285
- Activity: HAI Prevention Initiatives
- Houston: $341,500
- Activity: Antimicrobial Use Surveillance (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
- State of Texas funding: $273,285
State Contact:
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Wes Hodgson, MPA
State Plan Project Coordinator
Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI)
Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease Branch
Infectious Disease Control Unit
Division of Prevention and Preparedness
Texas Department of State Health Services
1100 W 49th Street
Austin TX, 78756
- Phone: (512) 776-6364
- Wesley.Hodgson@dshs.state.tx.us
- Texas Department of Health
Vermont
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 100%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- 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 Prevention Collaborative for LTC Facilities*
- State has implemented a MDRO Prevention Collaborative*
- State has implemented a MRSA Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- This state is part of an HHS study evaluating MDROs on environmental surfaces in healthcare facilities*
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $830,600
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $67,236
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
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Carol Wood-Koob RN , CIC
HAI Prevention Coordinator
Vermont Department of Health
108 Cherry Street
Burlington, VT 05401 -
Phone: (802) 951-5150
Fax: (802) 951-4061 - carol.wood-koob@ahs.state.vt.us
- Vermont Department of Health
Virginia
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 100%
- Facilities in this state are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN
- State health department is 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 Prevention Collaborative for LTC Facilities
- State has implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
- Dialysis facilities in this state are participating in prevention and/or reporting initiatives for HAIs
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $1,063,554
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $71,472
- Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
* These projects include laboratory components
State Contact:
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Andrea Alvarez, MPH
Healthcare-Associated Infections Epidemiologist
Virginia Department of Health
Division of Surveillance and Investigation
109 Governor St, 5th Floor
Richmond, VA 23219
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Phone:
804.864.8097
Fax: 804.864-8139 - Andrea.Alvarez@vdh.virginia.gov
- Virginia Department of Health
Wisconsin
- The percent of healthcare facilities in this state reporting data on at least one HAI to CDC's NHSN: 74.3%
- State health department is involved with a CUSP initiative to prevent CLABSI and/or CAUTI
- State has implemented a CLABSI Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a MRSA Prevention Collaborative
- State has implemented a SSI Prevention Collaborative
- 2009-2011 Recovery Act funding amount: $976,405
- Activities A, B, and C: Infrastructure, Monitoring, and Prevention Projects (see ELC Activities Funded for more information)
- 2011 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $371,472
- Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure and HAI Prevention Initiatives (see ACA Activities Funded for more information)
State Contact:
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Gwen Borlaug, CIC, MPH
Infection Control Epidemiologist
Division of Public Health
Bureau of Communicable Diseases
1 West Wilson Street Room 318
Madison, WI 53702
- Phone: (608) 267-7711
Fax: (608) 261-4976 - gwen.borlaug@wisconsin.gov
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services
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.
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