When you enter a hospital you want to leave healthier than you went in.
It looks like California hospitals are doing better on that front. A new report released Wednesday by the California Department of Public Health shows that overall healthcare associated infections, or HAIs, are down in the state; 19,200 were reported in 2014.
Clostridium difficile was the only HAI to see an increase. It’s risen 9 percent since 2011. The report says over the past years, C. difficile has increasingly led to illness and death due to growth of more infectious and virulent strains.
Hospitals that saw a statistically significant increase in C. difficile in the North State in 2014 were Feather River Hospital in Butte County and Rideout Memorial Hospital in Sutter County.
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Statistically Significant Healthcare Associated Infection Rates in North State Hospitals
These hospitals saw significantly lower incidence of:
- Central line-associated blood stream infections
- Butte County - Oroville Hospital (9 infections in 2013, 0 in 2014.)
- Shasta County - Vibra Hospital of Northern California *Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
(10 infections in 2013, 2 in 2014.)
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These hospitals saw significantly higher incidence of:
- Clostridium difficile diarrheal infections
- Butte County - Feather River Hospital (2014 rates compared with 2011 national baseline, also saw a statistically significant high rates in 2013.)
- Sutter - County Rideout Memorial Hospital
(2014 rates compared with 2011 national baseline, also saw a statistically significant high rates in 2013.)
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (MRSA)
- Shasta County - Vibra Hospital of Northern California *Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
- Surgical site infections (SSI)
- Humboldt County - St Joseph Hospital(2014 rates compared with 2008 national baseline.)
- Shasta County - Mercy Medical Center
(2014 rates compared with 2008 national baseline.)
- Sutter County - Rideout Memorial Hospital
(2014 rates compared with 2008 national baseline, also saw a statistically significant high rates in 2013.)
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These hospitals did not participate in the 2014 Healthcare-Associated Infections data validation:
- Butte County - Biggs Gridley Memorial Hospital
- Lassen County - Banner Lassen Medical Center
- Modoc County - Modoc Medical Center, Surprise Valley Community Hospital
- Plumas County - Seneca Healthcare District
- Tehama County - St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
- Trinity County - Trinity Hospital