Indiana's Resource Collaborative for Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections

Vaccination and Healthcare

Vaccination is a key tool in infection prevention for healthcare workers and patients entering healthcare facilities. It is important to encourage staff members, patients, visitors, and family members to get vaccinated to protect themselves from disease and help prevent the spread of disease within healthcare facilities.

Please click here to visit the IDOH HAI-AR team's webpage on vaccination.

Mental Health and Healthcare

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

Please click here to visit the IDOH HAI-AR team's webpage on mental health.

Infection Prevention

An infection occurs when germs enter the body, increase in number, and cause a reaction of the body. Infection prevention is a practical, evidence-based approach preventing patients and health workers from being harmed by avoidable infections.

Please click here to learn more about the IDOH HAI-AR team's infection prevention program.

Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms

A Multi-Drug Resistant Organism (MDRO) is any organism that is resistant to one or more agents in at least three classes of antibiotics.

Please click here to visit the IDOH HAI-AR team's webpage on Antimicrobial Resistance (AR).

Please click here to visit the IDOH HAI-AR team's webpage on Candida auris (CA).

Project Firstline

CDC’s Project Firstline is a collaborative of diverse healthcare and public health partners that aims to provide engaging, innovative, and effective infection control training for millions of frontline U.S. healthcare workers as well as members of the public health workforce.

Please click here to learn more about the IDOH HAI-AR team's Project Firstline initiative.

Antimicrobial Stewardship (AS)

Antimicrobial Stewardship refers to coordinated strategies designed to promote appropriate use of antimicrobials with the goal of enhancing health outcomes, reducing resistance to antimicrobials, and decreasing unnecessary healthcare costs.

Please click here to visit the IDOH HAI-AR team's webpage on Antimicrobial Stewardship (AS).

Healthcare Associated Infections

A healthcare-associated infection (HAI) is an infection that a person can acquire while receiving treatment in a healthcare facility for another condition. There are various types of HAIs, which are often named after the site of the body in which they occur.

Please click here to visit the IDOH HAI-AR team's webpage on Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs).

National Healthcare Safety Network

The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is a CDC tracking system for HAIs. NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate HAIs.

Please click here to learn more about the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

Sepsis

Sepsis is the body's extreme response to an infection. It is a life-threatening medical emergency. Sepsis happens when an infection you already have triggers a chain reaction throughout your body. Infections that lead to sepsis most often start in the lung, urinary tract, skin, or gastrointestinal tract.

Please click here to visit the IDOH HAI-AR team's webpage on sepsis.