Congratulations PICU Team - Honorable Mention in the National Healthcare Associated Infections Prevention Awards

Re: Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital PICU (031-C)

Good news!

Your team’s application has been selected to receive Honorable Mention in the program of National Awards to Recognize Achievement in Eliminating Healthcare-Associated Infections, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Healthcare Quality and the Critical Care Societies Collaborative — composed of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society and Society of Critical Care Medicine.

You will receive Honorable Mention for Achievement in Eliminating Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections. To assist you in celebrating your successes, a certificate suitable for framing will be sent to you in a few weeks.

The leadership of the Department of Health & Human Services  and the Critical Care Societies Collaborative applaud your achievement. Information on the 2013 awardees will be posted shortly at www.aacn.org/haiawards. 

I am so very proud of all of you....38 months CLABSI free!  Melinda