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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the 2016 health care-associated infection (HAI) report this week. Overall, California hospitals perform better than the national baseline on three types of infections — surgical site infections (SSI), central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (MRSA BSI). California hospitals perform worse on Clostridium difficile diarrheal infections(CDI). Data are reported using a standardized infection ratio (SIR), with the national average of 1. The CDPH Licensing and Certification Program considers high HAI rates when prioritizing hospitals for surveys.
CDPH is publishing reports in a more streamlined format and has updated its website to include a web page for HAIs in each hospital that allows users to compare results for two or more hospitals side-by-side. Detailed infection-specific data tables, as published in prior years, are available only via the California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal. CDPH has also provided an interactive map. To assist hospitals in responding to inquiries about the data, CHA has developed the attached talking points.
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