healthcare-associated infections (HAI) program

The Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program in the California Department of Public Health Center for Health Care Quality oversees the prevention, surveillance, reporting, and response to HAIs and antimicrobial resistance (AR) in California's hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Although infections acquired as a result of receiving health care remain a public health problem, HAIs and AR can be prevented by following infection prevention and control (IPC) and antimicrobial stewardship (AS) best practices.

Since 2010, the HAI Program:

Receives and publicly reports California hospital HAI data to inform the public and prompt healthcare providers to take action to prevent infections.
Conducts statewide surveillance of healthcare-associated reportable conditions.
Provides IPC and AS education, training, and consultation to healthcare providers.
Convenes statewide and regional HAI/AR prevention collaboratives to coordinate efforts among healthcare facilities that commonly share patients.
Assists local public health agencies to investigate HAI/AR unusual occurrences, IPC breaches, and outbreaks that occur in healthcare facilities.

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