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Title: Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections at TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Project Summary As the title states, this project is aimed at reducing the rate of Healthcare-Associated Infections that occur at TriStar Centennial Medical Center (CMC) in Nashville, Tennessee. CMC is a 657 beds hospital CMC that has 657 beds, and covers 43 acres of land and offers services in behavioral health, women’s health, pediatric, oncology, cardiovascular, diabetic, emergency, imaging, neurology, orthopedic, rehabilitation, sleep, intensive care, and surgery (HCAHealthcare.Com, 2016). The funds from this grant will allow this purposed program to hire three staff members (one full-time, and two part-time) whose job will be to research, develop, …show more content…
Healthcare-Associated Infections arise from the invasive methods of healthcare (Healthypeople.Gov, 2014). Any time the skin is broken (cut, scrapped, poked, etc.), it opens a pathway for bacteria and viruses to enter the body, but in order to treat patients, practitioners have to draw blood samples, place catheters and central lines, cut tissue to do surgery, and much more which puts the patients at risk for infections. Healthcare-Associated Infections are estimated to cost between 25-32 billion dollars to treat annually (HealthyPeople.Gov, 2014). Financially, these Healthcare-Associated Infections carry a hefty price tag, but from a humanistic point, 77,000 people die from these infections (HealthyPeople.Gov, 2014). That is 77,000 fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles who are lost all because they sought medical care to improve their quality of life. This is why we must reduce the occurrences of these Healthcare-Associated Infections.
The most common Healthcare-Associated Infections include central line associated blood infections, catheter associated urinary tract infections, surgical site infections, ventilator associated, and Clostridium difficile infections (HealthyPeople.Gov, 2014). At one time or another, a patient within the care of CMC has been impacted by a Healthcare-Associated Infections. We at CMC believe that just one Healthcare-Associated Infection is one too many and that is why we are seeking this grant to implement a program that will decrease our facilities rate of Healthcare-Associated

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