Newsletters

Inside this issue – Preparing for 2015 NHSN reporting including information on new NHSN manuals and data collection forms, updated HAI surveillance definitions, CMS reporting requirements, new training resources and more.

Inside this issue – Data for CMS quality reporting programs due soon, new NHSN reporting to fulfill CMS quality reporting programs, HAI surveillance changes for 2015 and more.

Inside this issue – Information on the new Dialysis Component, unusual susceptibility profiles alert, Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Option, reporting for the 2014-2015 influenza season, training updates, planned NHSN HAI surveillance protocol updates for 2015 and more.

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology 2014 Annual Conference. NHSN topics include Enrollment /SAMS update, protocol changes, application updates, update on CMS reporting, electronic reporting, training news and more.

Inside this issue – Update on Medicare Beneficiary Number for CMS reporting, highlight of SAMS migration process, information on the new NHSN LabID Event Calculator, reminder for CMS data submission, analysis tips and more.

Inside this issue – Update on the 2014 CMS quality reporting rules, reminders about completing annual surveys, information on 2014 protocol changes, guidance on changing location descriptions in NHSN, and more.

Inside this issue – Update on NHSN’s proposed use of CPT codes for SSI surveillance, information about 2014 protocol changes, announcements regarding new educational opportunities with NHSN, reminders about due dates and CMS quality reporting requirements for 2014, and more.

Inside this issue – Important information about influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel and the NHSN Demo application, updates on NHSN’s proposed use of CPT codes for SSI surveillance and NHSN’s VAE protocol, announcements about some upcoming webinars (topics are the Hospital IQR Program, MRSA/C. difficile reporting, and the Hemovigilance Module), and reminders about due dates and requirements for CMS quality reporting programs.

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology 2013 Annual Conference. Topics included Protocol changes, NHSN application enhancements, update on CMS reporting, training news and more.

Inside this Issue – Recent changes and updates to NHSN, a new 2013 NHSN Patient Safety Protocol Errata, information for CMS quality reporting programs, and NHSN at the annual APIC meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, FL in June.

Inside This Issue – Information about the Outpatient Dialysis Center Practices Survey and NHSN changes for 2013, as well as a tribute to Teresa Horan as she retires from CDC at the end of this year.

Inside This Issue—Information about the new module for reporting HCP Influenza Vaccination, reminders about requirements for CMS’s various quality reporting programs, and updates about the Biovigilance Component of NHSN.

Inside This Issue—The Ventilator-Associated Event (VAE) Surveillance protocol for adults.

Inside This Issue – Upcoming Changes to NHSN in Release 7.0, Biovigilance Component and more…

Inside This Issue – NHSN Announces Updates to the Hemovigilance Module, Reminders and Tips for Participants in CMS’s Hospital IQR Program and more…

Inside This Issue – Ensuring Your CLABSI Data Get to CMS, Conferring Rights Functionality, Medication-associated Module is Relaunched, Biovigilance Updates and more…

Inside This Issue – Denominator Simplification Project Update, Primary vs. Secondary BSI.

Inside This Issue – CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program, NHSN Puroses and Confidentiality Assurance Changes, NHSN Application Updates.

Inside This Issue – Updated December 2010. Your Guide to the Standardized Infection Ratio, Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) SIRs, Surgical Site Infection (SSI) SIRs, Samples of SIR Output and List of SIR Risk Factors.

Inside This Issue – Biovigilance Component Updates, Case Studies, Patient Safety Manual and Document Updates, Spotlight: CDC/DHQP Visits Facilities in Oregon and Questions and Answers.

Inside This Issue – ARRA CDC Funding, Healthcare Personnel Safety, Prevent Infections in Hemodialysis, Hemovigilance, Questions and Answers and What is SAIC?

Inside This Issue – Updates to ICD-9-CM, Updated High Risk Inpatient Influenza Vaccination, NHSN drops CSEP Requirement and Digital Certificate Renewals

Inside This Issue – A Rale is Just a Rale…or is it? Can’t Generate Aggregate CAUTI Data? Case of the Missing Manual, Questions and Answers and Digital Certificate Renewals.

Inside This Issue – NHSN Members Meeting, Corrected UC-associated BSI Rates, Saving Keystrokes When Entering SSI Events, Need to Enroll Another Facility?, NHSN Releases Version 4.0.2.7, UTI Reminder, Questions and Answers.

Inside This Issue – NHSN Helpdesk Tips, Changing Your Email Address, Annual Facility Surveys, Reassignment of Facility Administrator

Inside This Issue – Updated Operative Procedure Codes, Need help with specific event criteria?, Annual Facility Surveys, New NHSN Facility Administrator, Reminders about Digital Certificates and Implant and Transplant Definitions

Inside This Issue – New Version of NHSN Coming Soon, NHSN Contact Information, Inactive Users, Protocol Pointers, Use ID# when requesting assistance, SHEA/CDC Epidemiology Course and NHSN Statistics – July 24, 2008.

Inside This Issue – NHSN Member Meetings, NHSN Publications, Monthly Data Reporting Requirement, Setting the “Date Variable” option in analysis, Protocol Pointers and NHSN Statistics – March 31, 2008.

Inside This Issue – Central Line Insertion Practices (CLIP) measure coming soon! Changing your email address, Conferring rights to Survey data in a Group, Protocol Pointers, Attribution of SSIs and Pneumonia and secondary BSI