Well Being & Human Services
Improving access to, and the standard of, supports and providers for older adults and people with disabilities is an HHS policy precedence and is seen throughout HHS packages. Lastly, analysis of the CAUTI information continues to disclose marked distinction in reductions between intensive care and non-intensive care items. Intensive care units have considerably greater SIRs, higher variety of catheter-days, and present much less reductions in these indicators of progress than in the non ICU setting. The difference in CAUTI reductions between ICUs and non-ICU settings have been highlighted in analysis of both NHSN and CUSP for CAUTI data. The 10% goal for CAUTI reduction on this APG effort represents a composite objective that reflects greater reductions in non-ICU settings and lesser reductions in ICUs. Fy14 The BHCC subcommittee on SMI is critical to the implementation of the Initiative, which can also be oriented in the path of achievement of this Agency Priority Goal on SMI. B...