The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published the 2016 Healthcare-Associated Infection Progress Report (HAI Progress Report). This is a report that presents progress on the prevention of key healthcare-associated infections with an effort to highlight progress and also uncover areas that need improvement. This year’s report is the first to measure year-to-year progress that uses the 2015 baseline, recently updated to account for advancements in HAI prevention and include the most current National Healthcare Safety Network definitions.
Looking at four different healthcare settings; acute care hospitals (ACHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs), and critical access hospitals (CAHs), this report includes national and state-by-state summaries of HAIs.
