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Assuring Patient Safety through Capture and Management of Product Attributes

Supply chain attributes inform critical supply availability and alignment with internal and external needs, integral to meeting pressures to deliver safe care.
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Patient Safety Initiative FAQ

Hospitals and health systems have shared with AHA their passion to work together to reinforce and accelerate our field’s patient safety efforts. As a result, AHA is launching a national initiative to reaffirm hospital and health system leadership and commitment to patient safety.
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Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital - Making HAI Prevention ‘Everyone’s Job’

Trusted collaboration among all stakeholders, coupled with a clear consensus for keeping health care teams and patients safe, drive the infection prevention efforts at Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital: Multidisciplinary Team Leads Practice Change to Prevent Infections

In 2021, the Infection Prevention and Transplant Infectious Diseases teams at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago observed a significant increase in the number of pulmonary infections caused by Mycobaterium abscessus.
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Advocate Condell Hospital: Improving Process to Improve Infection Prevention and Control

To reduce infection rates more effectively, successful hospitals and health systems are focusing on the fundamentals. For Advocate Condell Hospital, the focus is on process improvements.
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MUSC Health: Standardizing Processes —Small Steps Are Key to Preventing SSIs

One Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is one too many for the team at MUSC Health in Charleston, South Carolina. MUSC’s mission is “Do no harm and change what’s possible”; MUSC knows that decreasing SSIs is “an absolute change that IS possible.”
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Infection Prevention and Control Success Stories

Hospitals across the field look for practical infection prevention solutions. Advocate Condell Hospital focused on process and reduced HAI rates.

AHA Disparities Toolkit

The Health Research and Educational Trust Disparities Toolkit is a Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.

Rubbermaid: Combating Candida auris with Microfiber

Learn more about the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris and how RCP microfiber can play an integral role to your facility’s defense against it.
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South Carolina Hospital Association: Rewarding a Culture of Safety

When it comes to infection control, the South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) has really taken to heart the ironclad medical principle: First, do no harm.