Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

collaboration to Prevent Infections

The Problem

In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michigan Health and Hospital Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to decrease hospital-associated infections in health care organizations throughout Michigan. The initiative focused on areas such as hand hygiene, catheter-related blod stream infections and catehter-associated urinary tract infections.

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