Infection Prevention
The Infection Prevention Program at the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) exists to serve as a resource for infection preventionists and other healthcare personnel within KHA member hospitals by providing guidance and technical assistance. As a branch of the KHA Quality Program, KHA staff can collaborate with hospital teams and individuals to create infection prevention strategies, process improvement initiatives, provide feedback, and sustain results.
For more information, please contact Casey Franklin, Associate Vice President of Quality and Health Professions, Kentucky Hospital Association, at cfranklin@kyha.com or (270) 579-2974.
Resources
| Title | Summary | Categories | Tags | File Type | Link | Date | hf:doc_categories | hf:doc_tags | hf:file_type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Sepsis Consortium: Encyclopedia of Measures | Updated: November 2025 | Infection Prevention, Sepsis | January 13, 2026 | infection-prevention sepsis | |||||
| AHS HAI Surveillance & Dashboard Tool | The Alliant Health Solutions (AHS) Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) Surveillance & Dashboard tool is a modifiable spreadsheet designed to support nursing facility infection prevention and control (IPC) surveillance. | Infection Prevention, Sepsis | Tools | www | August 15, 2024 | infection-prevention sepsis | tools | www | |
| Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals | Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) | C. difficile, CAUTI, CLABSI, Infection Prevention, MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus), SSI, VAE | www | June 26, 2024 | c-difficile cauti clabsi infection-prevention mrsa ssi vae | www | |||
| Infection Prevention Risk Assessment for Nursing Homes Template | … | Infection Prevention | xlsx | April 30, 2024 | infection-prevention | xlsx | |||
| Content of an Infection Prevention and Control Plan | Outline developed by Libby Chinnes, RN, BSN, CIC, FAPIC | Infection Prevention | April 30, 2024 | infection-prevention | |||||
| Surviving Sepsis Campaign | Society of Critical Care Medicine | Infection Prevention, Sepsis | Website | www | January 25, 2024 | infection-prevention sepsis | website | www | |
| National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) | CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) | Infection Prevention, National Health and Safety Network (NHSN), Quality Organizations and Government Information | Website | html | January 24, 2024 | infection-prevention national-health-and-safety-network-nhsn quality-organizations-and-government-information | website | html | |
| APIC: Association of Professionals in Infection Control website | … | Infection Prevention | Website | www | January 24, 2024 | infection-prevention | website | www | |
| TAP C. difficile infection (CDI) Implementation Guide: Links to Example Resources | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | C. difficile, Infection Prevention, National Health and Safety Network (NHSN) | Tools | html | November 3, 2023 | c-difficile infection-prevention national-health-and-safety-network-nhsn | tools | html | |
| KHA Podcast: Sepsis | As part of Sepsis Awareness Month, KHA’s Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Transformation Deb Campbell and Director of Health Information & Analytics Mike Schutze discuss data from KHA’s recent Sepsis Report along with the Kentucky Sepsis Consortium’s | Infection Prevention, Sepsis | Podcast | www | September 26, 2023 | infection-prevention sepsis | podcast | www | |
| Sepsis Toolkit | Kentucky Sepsis Consortium | Infection Prevention, Sepsis | Tools | September 23, 2023 | infection-prevention sepsis | tools | |||
| Bristol Stool Scale | … | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Tools | September 1, 2023 | c-difficile infection-prevention | tools | |||
| Infection Preventionist Quick Guide and Checklist | New IP checklist | Infection Prevention | June 1, 2023 | infection-prevention | |||||
| C. Difficile Education and Process Improvement through Infection Prevention, Laboratory, and Pharmacy Collaboration | KHA 2023 Quality Conference Presentation: Shannon Davis, RN and Amory Scott, PharmD, BCPS | 2023, C. difficile, Infection Prevention, KHA Quality Conference | Presentation | www | March 3, 2023 | 2023 c-difficile infection-prevention kha-quality-conference | presentation | www | |
| Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs | This customizable, educational toolkit aims to help ICUs reduce rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) | CAUTI, CLABSI, Infection Prevention | Tools | html | March 1, 2023 | cauti clabsi infection-prevention | tools | html | |
| KHA Podcast: Sepsis Survivor Week | Sepsis Survivor Darrell Raikes and KHA Vice President of Quality & Health Professions Deb Campbell talk about Sepsis Survivor Week and KHA’s Kentucky Sepsis … | Infection Prevention, Sepsis | Podcast | www | February 14, 2023 | infection-prevention sepsis | podcast | www | |
| C. diff Treatment Flowsheet | … | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Tools | November 1, 2022 | c-difficile infection-prevention | tools | |||
| Progression of a C. diff Infection | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Promotional Materials | October 13, 2022 | c-difficile infection-prevention | promotional-materials | |||
| Patients and Families: Be Antibiotics Aware, C. diff Infection – Am I At Risk? | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Promotional Materials | October 13, 2022 | c-difficile infection-prevention | promotional-materials | |||
| Blood Culture Dos and Don’ts | … | Blood Culture, CLABSI, Infection Prevention | Guidelines | September 1, 2022 | blood-culture clabsi infection-prevention | guidelines | |||
| C. diff Guidelines and Prevention Resources | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Guidelines | www | June 27, 2022 | c-difficile infection-prevention | guidelines | www | |
| Zone Tool: Sepsis and/or Infection (English) | Alliant Quality | Community Coalitions, Infection Prevention, Sepsis | Tools | June 3, 2022 | community-coalitions infection-prevention sepsis | tools | |||
| Zone Tool: Sepsis and/or Infection (Spanish) | Alliant Health Solutions | Community Coalitions, Infection Prevention, Sepsis | Tools | June 3, 2022 | community-coalitions infection-prevention sepsis | tools | |||
| C. difficile Testing Protocol | Saint Francis Hospital | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Guidelines | May 24, 2022 | c-difficile infection-prevention | guidelines | |||
| Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update | Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) | Infection Prevention, VAE | Reports | May 20, 2022 | infection-prevention vae | reports | |||
| ABATE Toolkit: Protocol to Reduce Bloodstream Infections in Patients with Specific Medical Devices | This toolkit can help hospital infection prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections by more than 30 percent in adult inpatients who were not in intensive care units (ICUs) and who had | CLABSI, Infection Prevention | Tools | html | March 1, 2022 | clabsi infection-prevention | tools | html | |
| Clinical Practice Guideline: 2021 Focused Update Guidelines on Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults | Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Reports | www | September 1, 2021 | c-difficile infection-prevention | reports | www | |
| CLABSI Maintenance Audit Tool | … | CLABSI, Infection Prevention | Tools | xls | June 3, 2021 | clabsi infection-prevention | tools | xls | |
| Foley Daily Log | … | CAUTI, Infection Prevention | Tools | xls | June 3, 2021 | cauti infection-prevention | tools | xls | |
| SSI Event Analysis: A Team Approach to Preventing Surgical Site Infections | Deaconess Hospital Henderson | Infection Prevention, SSI | Webinar | June 3, 2021 | infection-prevention ssi | webinar | |||
| Skilled Nursing Facility Healthcare-Associated Infections Requiring Hospitalization for the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program | Infection Prevention | Reports | www | February 1, 2021 | infection-prevention | reports | www | ||
| Infection Preventionist Orientation Manual | This Orientation Guide is intended for use upon hire for a novice or experienced Infection Preventionist (IP) in any healthcare or public health setting. (Kansas Department of Health and Environment) | Infection Prevention | January 1, 2021 | infection-prevention | |||||
| Competency Self-Assessment Activity for Novice or Becoming Proficient IPs | Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology | Infection Prevention | January 1, 2019 | infection-prevention | |||||
| C. diff Factsheet | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | C. difficile, Infection Prevention | Guidelines | www | July 27, 2018 | c-difficile infection-prevention | guidelines | www | |
| Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals | This toolkit helps hospitals prevent CAUTI in patients and improve safety culture at the unit level by implementing concepts from the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) | CAUTI, Infection Prevention | Tools | html | March 1, 2018 | cauti infection-prevention | tools | html | |
| Forms & Checklists for Infection Prevention | Forms & Checklists for Infection Prevention, Volume 1 was designed to provide a variety of resources for the infection preventionist from novice to expert. The editors have selected and organized this compilation of forms, checklists, policies, and guidelines to | Infection Prevention | Tools | May 1, 2017 | infection-prevention | tools | |||
| Promoting appropriate urine culture management to improve health care outcomes and the accuracy of catheter-associated urinary tract infections | American Journal of Infection Control | CAUTI, Infection Prevention | Reports | January 1, 2017 | cauti infection-prevention | reports | |||
| AORN Guideline Audit Tool: Environmental Cleaning | Association of periOperative Registered Nurses | Infection Prevention, SSI | Tools | docx | January 1, 2016 | infection-prevention ssi | tools | docx | |
| Infographic Poster on CAUTI Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | CAUTI, Infection Prevention | Promotional Materials | September 1, 2015 | cauti infection-prevention | promotional-materials |