The hospitals and those organizations are partnering to form the South Carolina Healthcare Quality Trust. Through the partnership, the state’s largest universities and four largest health systems will use evidence-based practices and new research hoping to eliminate nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, infections in South Carolina hospitals, which are required by law to report categories of infections to the state health department.
In the future the collaboration will also target treatment improvements in chronic diseases.
Premier will provide information-sharing portals to research and track infections and their causes and identify prevention strategies.
Learn more about the South Carolina hospital partnership.
Learn more about the South Carolina hospital infection reporting project.
