GNYHA, in partnership with the United Hospital Fund and with support from the New York State Department of Health, assisted a group of health care facilities, both acute and long term care, implement and test a set of evidence-based guidelines to create effective and sustainable antibiotic stewardship programs across the continuum of care.

GNYHA, in partnership with the United Hospital Fund, is launching a Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Prevention Collaborative to reduce CAUTI rates, as well as to identify and adopt best practices to prevent CAUTIs.

CLABSI is the next phase of the GNYHA/United Hospital Fund Collaborative to eliminating central-line associated bloodstream infections.

GNYHA and the United Hospital Fund, in cooperation with the New York State Department of Health, launched a Collaborative to reduce the rates of bacterial infections in participating hospitals.

GNYHA is working with IPRO, the quality improvement organization for New York State, to assist hospitals in preventing and reducing the transmission of MRSA infections in ICUs.

To address the challenges presented by sepsis, GNYHA and the United Hospital Fund (UHF) are launching the STOP (Strengthening Treatment and Outcomes for Patients) Sepsis Collaborative.