Request for Co-Sponsors for Office of Healthcare Quality's Programs to Strengthen Coordination and Impact of National Efforts in the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections

Summary

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking co-sponsors to collaborate on a program aimed at reducing healthcare-associated infections, specifically central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), by 50% by the end of 2013. The program will be developed and implemented in accordance with the HHS Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, available at http://www.hhs.gov/ash/initiatives/hai/actionplan/index.html.