Addressing Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs) after COVID-19 – Part 4

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are persistent and challenging, no more so than following the COVID-19 outbreak. Now that elective surgeries are ramping up again, it is more important than ever to prevent SSIs, and that is the focus for this episode in our series addressing HACs.

 

Guest speaker:

Richard Beaver, B.S. Chem, MBB, CPHQ

Senior Consulting Director

Vizient

 

Moderator:

Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM

Principal

Clinical Operations and Quality

Vizient

 

Show Notes:

[00:36] The upsurge in sepsis

[02:25] Limited SSI improvement in some cases

[03:39] A combination of causes

[04:50] Lack of compliance

[05:59] Prophylactic antibiotics

[08:35] Chlorhexidine

[10:33] Accurate metrics and analysis for key drivers of improvement

[11:35] 360-degree approach

 

Links | Resources:

Rick Beaver’s contact email: richard.beaver@vizientinc.com

CMS Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) fact sheet Click here

CMS Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) reduction program Click here

Information on Vizient’s Clinical Data Base (CDB) Click here

AHRQ tools to reduce HACs Click here

 

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