Hospital Acquired Infections – MRSA

Overall Performance for Hospital Infections Hospital Acquired and Community Acquired Methacillin Resistant Staph Aureas (MRSA) Infections

It is important to understand the difference between Hospital Acquired Infections and Community Acquired Infections:

Patients who experience a Hospital Acquired infection:

Come in to the hospital without an infection but experience one during their hospital stay.

Patients who experience a Community Acquired infection:

Come in to the hospital with an infection. They do not get the infection from their hospital stay.

OVERALL PERFORMANCE FOR MRSA INFECTIONS (%)

A low score is better than a high score.

The red bar is the performance score for hospital acquired infections.

The blue bar is the performance score for community acquired infections.

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Comparative Trend Analysis
Hospital Acquired versus Community Acquired Methacillin
Resistant Staph Aureas (MRSA) Infections (All Types)

Hoag Hospital submits Hospital Acquired infection data to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSH). An aggressive internal target of 0.40 rate was selected based on published national data related to MRSA infection rates reported to NHSN.

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