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Healthcare-Associated Infection Activities in Oregon

2012-2013 Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination Survey

Acute Care Hospitals, Long-Term Care Facilities, and Ambulatory Surgery Centers:

Healthcare facilities are required to report influenza vaccination, documented contraindication, and informed declination rates for staff in accordance with ORS 442.851, Notes Following, and OARs 409-023-0000 through 409-023-035. 

Please input your facility's rates before May 20, 2013, using the appropriate online survey:

  • Short form survey for facilities that will report influenza vaccination and declination rates for this season through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) 
  • Full survey for all other facilities

Please contact Valerie Ocampo at valerie.l.ocampo@state.or.us or 971-673-1111 with any questions.

 

Oregon has a number of national and state-level activities focused on understanding and reducing the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

These include mandated reporting of high risk HAIs, validation of reported data, a multi-hospital collaborative adapting evidence-based HAI prevention strategies aimed at reducing HAIs, and multiple research projects, including determination of overall HAI prevalence, how to make HAI surveillance easier for hospitals, and surveillance of specific pathogens that are of particular concern as HAIs.

Oregon Reporting
Oregon Reporting
The Oregon Health Authority provides oversight and support for the mandatory reporting of healthcare-associated infections in Oregon hospitals.
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HAI Data Validation Activities
Validation Activities
Data validation ensures that the mandatory reporting of HAIs is complete and accurate. State employees independently audit hospital medical records to validate HAIs.
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Multi-Hospital Collaborative
Multi-Hospital Collaborative
The Oregon Patient Safety Commission convenes healthcare-associated infection (HAI) Prevention Collaboratives, which champion evidence-based prevention strategies aimed at reducing HAIs in Oregon.
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Healthcare-associated infections are infections that a patient acquires in a medical setting, such as a hospital, an ambulatory surgery center, an outpatient dialysis center, or a skilled nursing facility. 

This broad category of infections includes surgical site infections (SSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), bloodstream infections (BSIs), pneumonias, and skin and soft tissue infections, among others. HAIs are caused by a wide variety of different bacteria, fungi, and viruses, many of which can cause significant morbidity and mortality, particularly with immunocompromised and elderly patients being the most vulnerable. Although infection prevention knowledge and practice is constantly improving, this continues to be an important public health concern. Learn more...

The State of Oregon is addressing this concern through a HAI program administered and managed by the Oregon Health Authority's Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention Program.

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