CMS has awarded $347 million to the 16 organizations — including Premier Inc. — to support the next phase of a patient safety initiative.

The targets aim to significantly reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections, MRSA, Clostridium difficile cases, and other infections by 2020.

Each year, APIC sponsors International Infection Prevention Week to highlight the importance of infection prevention in improving patient safety.

Guide gives providers best practices in fight against central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), one of the most deadly health care-associated infections annually in the United States.

New journal article notes challenges remain since IOM published report, but also points out progress, including reducing CLABSI rates nationwide.

Hospital performance data for FY 2016 available on Hospital Compare; hospitals in bottom quartile face 1 percent Medicare payment cut.

Like earlier report, new AHRQ data show that hospitals continued to reduce HAC rates by 17 percent in 2014.

Inpatient rehabilitation and long-term acute care facilities must submit data to the NHSN on select infections and influenza vaccinations.

The CDC has added a tool to the NHSN that will rank hospital facilities and units by HAI rate so staff can see areas most in need of help.

CDC lists the Partnership for Patients, which includes the association's Essential Hospitals Engagement Network, among initiatives that have lowered the rate of health care-associated infections.