Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Policy

Policy: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an infection that gets into patients when they receive or get treatment for a medical or surgical condition. Most infections can occur when treatments are being given to health care facilities as well as hospitals and outpatients surgery centers. It can also occur when a patient is getting treatment at home or a community clinic. Most of the infections come from the common but unusual bacteria, viruses or fungi's. HAI is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the US and it also associated with the substantial increases in health care cost each year.
• Action should be taken because HAI is the cause of morbidity and mortality. When individuals are in a hospital or health clinic, 1 in every 25 patients is infected with HAI. These infections are costing the US billions of dollars in health care each year and …show more content…
They are also working with a committee for Prevention of Health Care Associate Infections to come up with strategies to help accelerate the progress of the nation infection reduction goals.
• This health care policy is important because it can change patient's lives as well as save them. Thousands of individuals die each year because the cause of healthcare-associated infections because their treatment may have gone wrong or they may have gotten a bacterial infection from surgery. Any reduction or coming up with better strategies will help the hospitals and clinics know what protocol to use, which will save an individual's life. It also helps keeps the staff from at risk too because they would be following the policy and protocols that will keep them and the patients safe