ARRA - Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections

This funding was appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).� The ARRA funds are intended to reduce preventable healthcare-associated infections through State health department efforts to prevent HAIs including leveraging the National Health Care Safety Network to support the dissemination of HHS evidence-based practices within hospitals ($40 million). Specific goals include: (1) progress towards prevention targets (e.g., 50-70% reduction in bloodstream infections); (2) use of the metrics and supporting systems to assess progress towards meeting the targets; (3) broad implementation of current evidence-based prevention guideline recommendations; (4) develop and implement state public health-healthcare HAI prevention collaboratives to implement prioritized HAI prevention recommendations using CDC�s NHSN as the measurement system; (5) enhance and expand participation by hospitals and other healthcare facilities in the NHSN to facilitate reporting of appropriate HAI metrics and progress toward five-year prevention targets to state health departments and CDC, HHS, and other HHS OPDIVs; (6) build a public health workforce in health departments who can coordinate state-wide initiatives to ensure progress towards five-year national prevention targets; (7) assist States in the development and submission of state HAI prevention plans; (8) quickly expand its infrastructure to address a broader array of HAI epidemiology; (9) provide additional training for EIP state staff on HAI epidemiology and surveillance; (10) develop and implement enhanced surveillance tools and methods, and add staff for targeted two year projects.

Types of Assistance: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS