Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) Resources
Healthcare Safety Unit HAI Home
2022 Texas Healthcare Safety Plan
2022 Texas Healthcare Facilities Map
2022 Texas AR Lab Network Response Plan
2021 Texas Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) Outbreak Report
Resources for Infection Preventionists
HAI/PAE Reporting and Investigation
Confidentiality
Texas Annual Reports and Antibiograms
Audit Verification Tools (2016)
Interfacility Transfer Form (PDF, 158 KB) 11.12.21
HAI Training Materials for Texas Reporting
Introduction to TXHSN HAI Users Guide (PDF from PowerPoint) December 2015
Introduction to TxHSN: PAE & HAI Users Guide (PDF from PowerPoint) December 2015
HAI Reporting Update, October 2013 (PDF)
Mandatory Reporting of Health Care-Associated Infections in Texas (PDF) Fall 2011
Getting Started with NHSN and TxHSN (PDF) 124 KB
Texas General Hospital Confer Rights Instructions (PDF) May 2014
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
NHSN Enrollment Instructions (PDF)
UPDATED: The Association for Prevention of Infection and Control (APIC) is providing free NHSN reporting training. The following contains the content of the training sessions.
NHSN Training Slides Part 1 (PPT, 9,399 KB)
NHSN Training Slides Part 2 (PPT, 9,911 KB)
NOTE: The CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion has endorsed the DSHS/APIC NHSN training as meeting the requirements for a face-to-face NHSN training. The CDC NHSN Program recommends you also review their training sessions (www.cdc.gov/nhsn/training/), especially for those protocols and topics which may not have been covered during CDC-endorsed trainings. When registering as a user of NHSN, you may enter the date of the CDC-endorsed training you attended as the training completion date.
Incomplete/Missing Alerts Instructional Guide (PDF, 130 MB)
How to Report Zero CLABSI (PDF)
How to Report Zero Surgical or SSI Events (PDF)
Texas National Healthcare Safety Network Course:
NHSN spreadsheet example (XML, 61 KB)
Healthcare Facility HAI Reporting Requirements to CMS via NHSN-Current and Proposed Requirements (PDF)
HAI Related Acronyms
HAI - health care-associated infection
CLABSI - central line-associated bloodstream infection
NHSN - National Healthcare Safety Network
ASC - ambulatory surgical center
DSHS - Department of State Health Services
LTAC - long-term acute care (facility)
ICU - intensive care unit
CCU - critical care unit
IP - infection preventionist
SSI - surgical site infection
RSV - respiratory syncytial virus
PAE - preventable adverse event
CMS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CABGs - coronary artery bypass grafts
IPPS - Inpatient Prospective Payment System
NICU - neonatal intensive care unit
ICD-9-CM - International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision Clinical Modification
SIR - standardized infection ratio
DHQP- Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
APIC - Association for Prevention of Infection and Control
MRSA - methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
MDRO - multi drug resistant organisms
CDI - Clostridioides difficile infection
SHEA - The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
VAE - ventilator-associated event
VAP- ventilator-associated pneumonia
HAI Related Resources
American Health Quality Association
HICPAC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
National Health Care Safety Network (NHSN)
Texas Administrative Code Title 25, Chapter 200 (Healthcare-Associated Infections)
Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 98 (PDF, 75 KB)
Resources for General Public
Protecting Yourself and Your Family
Healthcare Associated Infection Patient Safety
Antibiotic Resistant Germs in Hospitals | HAI | CDC
COVID-19
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