Action | Expanded Requirements for Reporting Healthcare-Associated Infections |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 4/1/2011 |
Riverside Walter Reed Hospital currently reports CLABSI in ICU. RWRH does not have the capability of downloading the denominator data directly to an outside source. I am not sure if my facility will purchase a seperate program.This past year we participated in the Surgical Site Infection Pilot Program, and had a CLABSI site validation in December 3, 2009. I am the only Infection Preventionist at my hospital, but I also fill in staffing as needed, and I am the Coordinator for ICU. I have been the Infection Preventionist at RWRH for 1 year, and I feel that this is a full-time job; however, this is not an option. C-diff is not a problem at my facility, we do see cases; however they are not hospital acquired infections. The SCIP core measures are already being reported to several agencies. The workload for Infection Preventionist is increasing , but we are not being offered any extra staff to help with the workload.