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Pioneering Patient Safety: UHC’s Critical Care Unit Celebrates A Year Without CAUTI and CLABSI Infections

WVU Medicine United Hospital Center (UHC), located in Bridgeport, West Virginia, is celebrating a noteworthy patient safety milestone. The hospital's Critical Care Unit has successfully accomplished a year without any instances of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) or Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI). These two primary healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) hold significant weight in hospital-associated morbidity…

February 27, 2026

Infection Prevention News

Patient Safety: An Essential Element in Healthcare

Patient safety is a critical concept in healthcare, focusing on the prevention of harm caused due to the provision of medical care. Take the case of Fatima, a 28-year-old woman from Cairo, who went for routine appendix removal surgery but developed a severe infection due to the surgical team's neglect of hand hygiene protocols. This…

February 9, 2026

Infection Prevention News

Combatting HAIs: Strides, Challenges, and Future Pathways

The study of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has seen significant strides, with a pronounced decline in HAI rates at U.S hospitals, according to the CDC's National and State HAI Progress Report. Data compiled by around 38,000 institutions, including acute-care hospitals to long-term care facilities, paints an encouraging picture for 2023, indicating a reversal from trends seen…

November 12, 2024

Pioneering Patient Safety: UHC’s Critical Care Unit Celebrates A Year Without CAUTI and CLABSI Infections

Patient Safety: An Essential Element in Healthcare

Combatting HAIs: Strides, Challenges, and Future Pathways

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