Healthcare-Associated Infections

Healthcare-associated infections are infections affecting the patients while they are receiving treatment for medical or surgical conditions in the healthcare setting such as hospitals, community clinics, long-term care facilities, dialysis centers or outpatient surgical centers, and others. They are the most common complication of clinical setting, they affect 4% of patients.
There are many types of healthcare-associated infections such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE), Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI), Clostridium difficile Infection (C. difficile), and Surgical Site Infection (SSI) (CDPH, 2016).
According to the CDC two million of patients are affected
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are the director for quality improvement organizations to help Medicare providers to provide healthcare quality improvement and to the medical costs. It’s one of the largest federal programs that their goal to improve the healthcare quality for Medicare beneficiaries with low medical
These organizations are working with healthcare providers such as doctors, hospitals, home health agencies and nursing homes to make sure they are providing highest quality of care to the patients.
Quality improvement organizations are working as local leaders, practicing efforts to support the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Quality Strategy and board national healthcare improvement goals such as decreasing healthcare associated infections, decreasing mortality rate due to heart attack and stroke, expanding the use of electronic medical record, and improving preventive care.
49 million of people who have Medicare will get improvement in the quality of health care.
Quality improvement organizations are working with all governmental levels, federal, state, and local as well as with private sectors, and they provide resources for Medicaid agencies of the state (AHQA,