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Organ transplant safety – how safe do transplants need to be?
Author – Matthew J. Kuehnert, MD Director, Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion More than 100,000 people in this country anxiously await an organ transplant. Some people will receive a live-saving transplant eventually; however, an average of 18 of the sickest people on the United Network for Read More >
Posted on by 9 CommentsOne State, One Year: Arizona’s Progress toward HAI Prevention
Guest author – Jessica Rigler, MPH, CHES Healthcare-associated Infections Coordinator Arizona Department of Health Services In September 2009, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) received funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to develop infrastructure to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and create a new HAI Coordinator position. As the Arizona HAI Coordinator, Read More >
Posted on by 9 CommentsFirst anniversary of the Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI) Recovery Act Program
Author – Joni Young, MS CDC’s Healthcare-associated Infections Recovery Act Program Coordinator Just over a year ago, I was putting together a team of public health analysts to support state health department healthcare-associated infection prevention programs. We had $40M in grants, 51 new grantees, and 28 months to accomplish what some would say is impossible Read More >
Posted on by 4 CommentsMore than a Week: Eliminating Healthcare-associated Infections Year-round
Guest Author – Neil Fishman, M.D. President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Director of the Department of Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control and the Director of the Antimicrobial Management Program for the University of Pennsylvania Health System In celebration of International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW), I wanted to draw attention to Read More >
Posted on by 3 CommentsInfection Prevention: Is Everyone’s Business
Guest Author –Cathryn Louise Murphy, RN, PhD, CIC 2010 President – Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology Managing Director – Infection Control Plus Associate Professor – Faculty of Health Services and Medicine, Bond University Each year in October, infection preventionists (IPs) and others working toward the common goal of eliminating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) Read More >
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