Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections: Connecting North Carolina's Patients to National Efforts.
With increased federal and state attention to prevention and control of health care-associated infections (HAIs), broad multifacility collaboratives have emerged to guide providers' work at the bedside. This commentary reviews how HAI prevention flows from federal-level guidance through state leadership and into hospitals, connecting governance to its impact on North Carolina's patients.
medical epidemiologist, Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Zack
Z
Moore
infection prevention specialist, Mission Health, Asheville, North Carolina.
Corrianne
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Billings
chief quality officer, Mission Health, Asheville, North Carolina chris.derienzo@msj.org.
Chris
C
DeRienzo
D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina