Southeastern PA health care professionals are expanding a program that helps combat hospital-acquired infection through a $100,000 stimulus grant announced this week, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.
The collaborative is open--at no cost--to hospitals, long-term
acute care hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care
facilities in Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery,
Philadelphia, and Schuylkill counties. The collaborative builds on a
regional CDI prevention effort launched by the foundation in 2009 and
funded by Independence Blue Cross and southeastern Pennsylvania
hospitals through their Partnership for Patient Care program.
The goal of the initiative, which will promote the adoption by
health-care providers of evidence-based infection prevention strategies,
is to achieve an overall 30 percent reduction in health care-associated
clostridium difficile infections at participating organizations.
Original Source: Philadelphia Business Journal
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