Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting System
Report Issued on Pilot Year (2007)
In 2007, 187 New York hospitals reported hospital-acquired infection (HAI) rates to the New York State Department of Health (DOH). DOH compiled these data and the results are presented in the New York State Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting System Report to Hospitals (PDF, 1.6MB, 115pg.).
The data focus on the following infection sites: colon surgical site infections, coronary artery bypass graft surgical site infections, central line associated blood stream infections in adults/pediatric intensive care units and central line associated blood stream infections in neonatal intensive care units. Data for this report were collected during a one-year pilot period (2007).
This report has been generated as required by Public Health Law. The goals of the HAI reporting legislation are to provide consumers with fair, accurate and reliable HAI data to compare hospitals, as well as to ensure that the data can be used by hospitals to support quality improvement and infection prevention activities. The purpose of the pilot year was to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data reported by the hospitals. By law, hospital names are encrypted. After the pilot year, the HAI information will include the names of the hospitals so that the rates can be used by the public for comparison purposes.
Also during the pilot year, DOH provided more than $1.2 million in funding for demonstration projects that focus on the prevention of infections acquired in hospitals. The purpose of these projects is to promote additional knowledge and experience with prevention and control strategies to reduce and eliminate hospital-acquired infections.