In October 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new targets for the national acute care hospital metrics for the National Action Plan to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections: Road Map to Elimination (HAI Action Plan). These target goals for reduction of health care-associated infections (HAIs) are ambitious but achievable.
The new targets start from a new baseline — and, in some cases, are more aggressive than the previous targets.