Form 57.103 Patient Safety Component-Annual Hospital Survey

[NCEZID] The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

57.103_ACH Annual Facility Survey_2024_CLEAN

57.103 Patient Safety Component - Annual Hospital Survey

OMB: 0920-0666

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OMB No. 0920-0666

Exp. Date: 12/31/2026

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Patient Safety Component—Annual Hospital Survey

Instructions for this form are available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/forms/instr/57_103-TOI.pdf

*required for saving Tracking #:

Facility ID: *Survey Year:

Facility Characteristics (completed by Infection Preventionist)

*Ownership (check one):

□ For profit □ Not for profit, including church □ Government

□ Military □ Veterans Affairs □ Physician owned

If facility is a Hospital:

*Number of patient days:________

*Number of admissions:_________

For any Hospital:

*Is your hospital a teaching hospital for physician and/or physicians-in-training or nursing students? □ Yes □ No

If Yes, what type: □ Major □ Graduate □ Undergraduate

*Number of beds set up and staffed in the following location types (as defined by NHSN):

ICU (including adult, pediatric, and neonatal levels II/III, III or higher): ______________________________
All other inpatient locations: ______________________________

Facility Microbiology Laboratory Practices (completed with input from Microbiology Laboratory Lead)

Does your facility have its own on-site laboratory that performs bacterial antimicrobial □ Yes □ No susceptibility testing?
1. If No, where is your facility’s antimicrobial susceptibility testing performed? (check one)
  - Affiliated medical center
  - Commercial referral laboratory
  - Other local/regional, non-affiliated reference laboratory
2. If Yes, do you also send out any antimicrobial susceptibility testing? (check one) □ Yes □ No

Facility Microbiology Laboratory Practices (continued)

For Enterobacterales, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and/or Acinetobacter baumannii complex, indicate which methods are used for:

Primary susceptibility testing and
Secondary, supplemental, or confirmatory testing (if performed).

If your laboratory does not perform susceptibility testing, indicate the methods used at the outside laboratory.

Use the testing codes listed below the table.

(1) Primary	(2) Secondary	Comments
____________________	____________________	____________________
1 = Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion	4 = ThermoFiscer/Sensititre	7 = Gradient Dilution Strip (for example, E test, Liofilchem)
2 = bioMérieux/Vitek	5 = Beckman Coulter/MicroScan	8 = Sent out test, method not known
3 = BD Phoenix	6 = Selux Diagnostics	9 = Other (describe in Comments section)

Does either primary or secondary/supplemental antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) include the following (check all that apply):

Drug	Tested	Not Tested
Cefiderocol	□	□
Ceftazidime-Avibactam	□	□
Ceftolozane-Tazobactam	□	□
Eravacycline	□	□
Plazomicin	□	□
Imipenem-Relebactam	□	□
Meropenem-Vaborbactam	□	□
Aztreonam-Avibactam	□	□
Sulbactam-Durlobactam	□	□

Has the laboratory implemented revised breakpoints recommended by CLSI for the following:
1. Third Generation Cephalosporin and monobactam (i.e. aztreonam) breakpoints for □ Yes □ No Enterobacterales in 2010
2. Carbapenem breakpoints for Enterobacterales in 2010 □ Yes □ No
3. Ertapenem breakpoints for Enterobacterales in 2012 □ Yes □ No
4. Carbapenem breakpoints for Pseudomonas aeruginosa in 2012 □ Yes □ No
5. Fluroquinolone breakpoints for Pseudomonas aeruginosa in 2019 □ Yes □ No
  
  Facility Microbiology Laboratory Practices (continued)
6. Fluroquinolone breakpoints for Enterobacterales in 2019 □ Yes □ No
7. Aminoglycoside breakpoints for Enterobacterales in 2023 □ Yes □ No
8. Aminoglycoside breakpoints for Pseudomonas aeruginosa in 2023 □ Yes □ No
9. Piperacillin-tazobactam breakpoints for Pseudomonas aeruginosa in 2023 □ Yes □ No
10. Piperacillin-tazobactam breakpoints for Enterobacterales in 2022 □ Yes □ No

Does the laboratory test bacterial isolates for presence of a carbapenemase? (this does □ Yes □ No not include automated testing instrument expert rules)

If Yes, indicate what is done if carbapenemase production is detected: (check one)
- Change susceptible carbapenem results to resistant
- Report carbapenem MIC results without an interpretation
- No changes are made in the interpretation of carbapenems, the test is used for epidemiological or infection control practices

If Yes, which test is routinely performed to detect carbapenemase: (check all that apply)

□ Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (for example, PCR, Cepheid)	□ NG-Test Carba-5 (or other lateral flow assay)
□ Modified Hodge Test	□ Carba NP
□ mCIM/CIM	□ Other (specify):_____________

If Yes, which of the following are routinely tested for the presence of carbapenemases: (check all that apply)
- Enterobacterales spp. □ Pseudomonas aeruginosa □ Acinetobacter baumannii

Does your facility use commercial or laboratory developed tests for rapid molecular detection of antimicrobial resistance markers in bacterial bloodstream infections? Examples of commercially available systems include BioFire FilmArray, Luminex Verigene, etc.

□ Yes

□ No [If checked, skip questions 7 and 8]

If Yes, which test panel(s) does your facility use? (check all that apply)
- Accelerate PhenoTest BC □ BioFire FilmArray BCID □ BioFire FilmArray BCID II
- Cepheid Xpert MRSA/SA BC □ GenMark ePlex BCID-GP □ GenMark ePlex BCID-GN
- GenMark ePlex BCID-FP □ Luminex Verigene BC-GP □ Luminex Verigene BC-GN
- MALDI-TOF MS directly from positive blood culture (e.g., SepsiTyper)
- MALDI-TOF MS based antimicrobial resistance detection
- T2Biosystems T2Bacteria □ T2Biosystems T2Candida □ T2Biosystems T2Resistance
- Other Commercial Test(s) (Leave Comment) ___________________________________
- Other Laboratory Developed Test(s) (Leave Comment) ___________________________

In a scenario where the mecA resistance marker and Staphylococcus aureus are detected by rapid molecular testing in a blood specimen, select the procedure(s) your facility conducts. (check one)

□ Our laboratory does not perform mecA testing using rapid molecular methods. [If checked, skip question 7a.]

Facility Microbiology Laboratory Practices (continued)

□ Culture based phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing is not performed. [If checked, skip question 7a.]

□ Culture based phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing is performed. A text indicating results of the corresponding rapid molecular testing and/or the interpretation of the rapid molecular testing result is added to the phenotypic test result.

□ Culture based phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing is performed. No text indicating corresponding rapid molecular testing and/or interpretation is added.

If both rapid molecular and culture based phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing are performed for a blood specimen to detect drug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus, and discordance is found between their results, how are results reported? (check one)
- Further testing is not pursued. Results are reported separately.
- Further testing is not pursued. The phenotypic result is overridden by the rapid molecular test result when an antimicrobial resistance marker is detected.
- Further testing is performed to identify the reason for the discordance. Results are modified based on the further analysis.

In a scenario where the bla_CTX-M (CTX-M) resistance marker and Escherichia coli are detected by rapid molecular testing in a blood specimen, select the procedure(s) your facility conducts. (check one)

□ Our laboratory does not perform bla_CTX-M (CTX-M) testing using rapid molecular methods. [If checked, skip question 8a.]

□ Culture based phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing is not performed. [If checked, skip question 8a.]

□ Culture based phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing is performed. No text indicating corresponding rapid molecular testing and/or interpretation is added.

If both rapid molecular and culture based phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing are performed for a blood specimen to detect drug resistance in Escherichia coli and discordance is found between their results, how are results reported? (check one)
- Further testing is not pursued. Results are reported separately.
- Further testing is not pursued. The phenotypic result is overridden by the rapid molecular test result when an antimicrobial resistance marker is detected.
- Further testing is performed to identify the reason for the discordance. Results are modified based on the further analysis.

Where is yeast identification performed for specimens collected at your facility? (check one)

□ On-site laboratory

□ Affiliated medical center

□ Commercial referral laboratory

Facility Microbiology Laboratory Practices (continued)

□ Other local/regional, non-affiliated reference laboratory

□ Yeast identification not available (specifically, yeast identification is not performed onsite or at any affiliate/commercial/other laboratory) [If checked, skip questions 10-14]

Answer questions 10-14 for the laboratory that performs yeast identification for your facility:

Which of the following methods are used for yeast identification? (check all that apply)

□ MALDI-TOF MS System (Vitek MS)	□ MicroScan
□ MALDI-TOF MS System (Bruker Biotyper)	□ Non-automated Manual Kit (for example, API 20C, RapID, Germ Tube, PNA-FISH, etc.)
□ Vitek-2	□ DNA sequencing
□ BD Phoenix	□ Other (specify): ______________________

Does the laboratory routinely use chromogenic agar for the identification or differentiation of Candida isolates?

□ Yes □ No □ Unknown

Candida isolated from which of the following body sites are usually fully identified to the species level? (check all that apply)

□ Blood	□ Respiratory
□ Other normally sterile body site (for example, CSF)	□ Other (specify): ______________________
□ Urine	□ None are fully identified to the species level

Does the laboratory employ any PCR molecular tests to identify Candida from blood specimens?

□ Yes □ No □ Unknown

If yes, which PCR molecular tests are used to identify Candida from blood specimens? (check all that apply)
- T2Candida Panel
- BioFire BCID
- GenMark ePlex BCID
- Other, specify: _________________
- Unknown

If yes and you get a positive result, does this lab culture the blood to obtain an isolate?
- Yes, always
- Yes, with clinical order
- No
- Unknown

Facility Microbiology Laboratory Practices (continued)

Where is antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) performed for specimens collected at your facility? (check one)

□ On-site laboratory	□ Other local/regional, non-affiliated reference laboratory
□ Affiliated medical center	□ AFST not available (specifically, AFST is not performed onsite or at any affiliate/commercial/other laboratory) [if selected, skip questions 15 -19]
□ Commercial reference laboratory

Answer questions 15-19 for the laboratory that performs AFST for your facility:

What methods are used for antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST), excluding Amphotericin B? (check all that apply)

□ Broth microdilution with laboratory developed plates	□ YeastOne (Thermo Scientific™ Sensititre™)	□ Gradient diffusion (E test)
□ Vitek (bioMerieux)	□ Other (specify): ________________	□ Unknown

What methods are used for antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) of Amphotericin B? (check all that apply)

□ Broth microdilution with laboratory developed plates	□ YeastOne (Thermo Scientific™ Sensititre™)	□ Gradient diffusion (E test)
□ Vitek (bioMerieux)	□ Other (specify): ________________	□ Unknown

AFST is performed for which of the following antifungal drugs? (check all that apply)

□ Fluconazole	□ Voriconazole	□ Itraconazole
□ Posaconazole	□ Micafungin	□ Anidulafungin
□ Caspofungin	□ Amphotericin B	□ Flucytosine
□ Other, specify: ________________	□ Unknown

AFST is performed on fungal isolates in which of the following situations? (check only one box per row)

	Performed automatically	Performed with a clinician’s order	Not performed	Unknown
Blood	□	□	□	□
Other normally sterile body site (for example, CSF)	□	□	□	□
Urine	□	□	□	□
Respiratory	□	□	□	□
Other (specify): _________	□	□	□	□

Is this laboratory developing antibiograms or other reports to track susceptibility trends for Candida spp. isolates tested in this laboratory?

Facility Microbiology Laboratory Practices (continued)

What is the primary testing method for C. difficile used most often by your facility’s laboratory or the outside laboratory where your facility’s testing is performed? (check one)

Which of the following methods serve as the primary method used for bacterial identification at your facility? (check one)

Which of the following methods serve as the secondary or backup method used for bacterial identification at your facility? (for example, a secondary method if the primary method fails to give an identification, or if the primary method is unavailable). (check one)

Infection Control Practices

(completed with input from Hospital Epidemiologist and/or Quality Improvement Coordinator)

Number or fraction of infection preventionists (IPs) in facility:

Number or fraction of full-time employees (FTEs) for a designated hospital epidemiologist (or equivalent role) affiliated with your facility: __________________

Infection Control Practices (continued)

Is it a policy in your facility that patients infected or colonized with MRSA are routinely placed in contact precautions while these patients are in your facility? (check one)

□ Yes

□ No

□ Not applicable: my facility never admits these patients

If Yes, check the type of patients that are routinely placed in contact precautions while in your facility (check one):
- All infected and all colonized patients
- Only all infected patients
- Only infected or colonized patients with certain characteristics (check all that apply)

□ Patients admitted to high risk settings

□ Patients at high risk for transmission

Is it a policy in your facility that patients infected or colonized with VRE are routinely placed in contact precautions while these patients are in your facility? (check one)

□ Yes

□ No

□ Not applicable: my facility never admits these patients

If Yes, check the type of patients that are routinely placed in contact precautions while in your facility (check one):
- All infected and all colonized patients
- Only all infected patients
- Only infected or colonized patients with certain characteristics (check all that apply)

□ Patients admitted to high risk settings

□ Patients at high risk for transmission

Is it a policy in your facility that patients infected or colonized with CRE (regardless of confirmatory testing for carbapenemase production) are routinely placed in contact precautions while these patients are in your facility? (check one)

□ Yes

□ No

□ Not applicable: my facility never admits these patients

If Yes, check the type of patients that are routinely placed in contact precautions while in your facility (check one):
- All infected and all colonized patients
- Only all infected patients
- Only infected or colonized patients with certain characteristics (check all that apply)

□ Patients admitted to high risk settings

□ Patients at high risk for transmission

Infection Control Practices (continued)

Is it a policy in your facility that patients infected or colonized with suspected or confirmed ESBL-producing or extended spectrum cephalosporin resistant Enterobacterales are routinely placed in contact precautions while these patients are in your facility? (check one)

□ Yes

□ No

□ Not applicable: my facility never admits these patients

If Yes, check the type of patients that are routinely placed in contact precautions while in your facility (check one):
- All infected and all colonized patients
- Only all infected patients
- Only infected or colonized patients with certain characteristics (check all that apply)

□ Patients admitted to high risk settings

□ Patients at high risk for transmission

Does the facility routinely perform screening testing (culture or non-culture) for CRE? This includes screening for patients at your facility performed by public health laboratories and commercial laboratories.

□ Yes □ No

If Yes, in which situations does the facility routinely perform screening testing for CRE? (check all that apply)
- Surveillance testing at admission for all patients
- Surveillance testing of epidemiologically-linked patients of newly identified CRE patients (for example, roommates)
- Surveillance testing at admission of high-risk patients (check all that apply)

□ Patients admitted from long-term acute care (LTAC) or long-term care facility (LTCF)

□ Patients with recent (for example, within 6 months) overnight hospital stay outside the United States

□ Patients admitted to high-risk settings (for example, ICU)

□ Other high-risk patients (specify): _________________

Surveillance testing of all patients in the facility or in a specific high-risk settings (for example, ICU) at pre-specified intervals (for example, weekly point prevalence survey)
Other (specify): _________________

If Yes, what method is routinely used by the lab conducting CRE testing of screening swabs from your facility? (check all that apply)
- Culture-based methods
- PCR
- Other (specify): _________________

Does the facility routinely perform screening testing (culture or non-culture) for Candida auris? This includes screening for patients at your facility performed by public health laboratories and commercial laboratories.

□ Yes □ No

Infection Control Practices (continued)

If Yes, in which situations does the facility routinely perform screening testing for Candida auris? (check all that apply)
- Surveillance testing at admission for all patients
- Surveillance testing of epidemiologically-linked patients of newly identified Candida auris patients (for example, point prevalence surveys in response to a case, patients in the same room or unit as a case)
- Surveillance testing at admission of high-risk patients (check all that apply)

□ Patients admitted from long-term acute care (LTAC) or long-term care facility (LTCF)

□ Patients with recent (for example, within 6 months) overnight hospital stay outside the United States

□ Patients admitted to high-risk settings (for example, ICU)

□ Other high-risk patients (specify): _________________

Surveillance testing of all patients in the facility or in a specific high-risk setting (for example, ICU) at pre-specified intervals (for example, weekly point prevalence survey)
Other (specify): _________________

If Yes, what method is routinely used by the lab conducting Candida auris testing of screening swabs from your facility?
- Culture-based methods
- PCR
- Other (specify): _________________

Does the facility routinely perform screening testing (culture or non-culture) for MRSA for any patients admitted to non-NICU settings? □ Yes □ No

If yes, in which situations does the facility routinely perform screening testing for MRSA for non-NICU settings? (check all that apply)
- Surveillance testing at admission for all patients
- Surveillance testing at admission of high-risk patients (for example, admitted from long-term acute care [LTAC] or long-term care facility [LTCF], or dialysis patients)
- Surveillance testing at admission of patients admitted to high-risk settings (for example, ICU)
- Surveillance testing of pre-operative patients to prevent surgical site infections
- Other (specify): _________________

Does the facility routinely perform screening testing (culture or non-culture) for MRSA for any patients admitted to NICU settings? □ Yes □ No □ N/A, facility does not have a NICU

If yes, in which situations does the facility routinely perform screening testing for MRSA for NICU settings? (check all that apply)
- Surveillance testing at admission for all patients
- Surveillance testing at admission for all transferred patients
- Surveillance testing of patients from known MRSA positive mothers
- Surveillance testing of high-risk patients (for example, infants born premature)
- Routine active surveillance testing (specifically, point prevalence surveys)
- Other (specify): _________________

Infection Control Practices (continued)

Does your facility have a policy to routinely use chlorhexidine bathing for any adult patients to prevent infection or transmission of MDROs at your facility?

□ Yes □ No □ N/A, Children’s Hospital

If yes, indicate which patients: (select all that apply)

□ ICU patients:	□ Patients outside the ICU:	□ Pre-operatively for patients undergoing surgery
○ All ICU patients	○ All patients outside the ICU	□ Pre-operatively for patients undergoing surgery
○ Subset of ICU patients	○ Subset of patients outside the ICU
□ Patients with central venous catheter or midline catheters □ Others, specify:__________	□ Patients with central venous catheter or midline catheters □ Others, specify:__________

Does the facility have a policy to routinely use a combination of topical chlorhexidine AND an intranasal anti-staphylococcal agent (mupirocin, iodophor, or an alcohol based intranasal agent) for any adult patients to prevent healthcare-associated infections or reduce transmission of resistant pathogens?

□ Yes □ No □ N/A, Children’s Hospital

If yes, indicate which patients: (select all that apply)

□ ICU patients:

□ Patients outside the ICU:

□ Pre-operatively for patients undergoing surgery

□ All ICU patients

□ ICU patients who are known to be colonized or infected with MRSA

□ ICU patients with central venous catheters or midline catheters

□ Patients who are known to be colonized or infected with MRSA

□ Patients with central venous catheters or midline catheters

Facility Neonatal or Newborn Patient Care Practices and Admissions Information

Does your facility provide neonatal or newborn patient care services at any level (specifically, does your facility provide delivery services, Level 1 well newborn care, Level II special care, or neonatal intensive care)?

If No was selected in question 35 above, questions 36-40 below do not apply to your facility and should be skipped. If your facility does care for neonates or newborns (at any level), complete questions below.

Questions should be answered based on the policies and practices that were in place for the majority of the last full calendar year.

Excluding Level I units (well newborn nurseries), record the number of neonatal admissions to Special Care Nurseries (Level II) and Intensive Care Units (Level II/III, Level III, Level IV):

a. Inborn Admissions: _____________________

b. Outborn Admissions: _____________________

Neonatal or Newborn Patient Care Practices and Admissions (continued)

Excluding Level I units (well newborn nurseries), record the number of neonatal admissions (both inborn and outborn) to Special Care (Level II) and Intensive Care (Level II/III, Level III, Level IV) in each of following birth weight categories:

a. Less than or equal to 750 grams: ________________	d. 1501-2500 grams: ________________________
b. 751-1000 grams: ________________	e. More than 2500 grams: ____________________
c. 1001-1500 grams: ____________________________

Does your facility provide Level III (or higher) neonatal intensive care as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics (for example, capable of providing sustained life support, comprehensive care for infants born <32 weeks gestation and weighing <1500 grams, a full range of respiratory support that may include conventional and/or high-frequency ventilation)?

Does your facility accept neonates as transfers for any of the following procedures: Omphalocele repair; ventriculoperitoneal shunt; tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)/esophageal atresia repair; bowel resection/reanastomosis; meningomyelocele repair; cardiac catheterization?

To help us better understand your facility’s practices and protocols for administering antimicrobials to newborns, answer the following questions:

If babies are roomed with their mother in a labor and delivery or postpartum ward and are administered oral or parenteral antimicrobials, such as ampicillin, what location is the medication administration attributed to in the electronic medication administration record (eMAR) system and/or bar code medication administration (BCMA) system?

□ a. Level I Well Newborn Nursery

□ b. Labor and Delivery Ward, Postpartum Ward, or Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum Suite

□ c. My facility requires that babies receiving antimicrobials intravenously (IV) are transferred out of their mother’s room in order for IV antimicrobials to be administered (babies receiving oral or intramuscular antimicrobials may remain in their mother’s room for antimicrobial administration)

□ d. My facility requires that babies receiving oral and/or intramuscular antimicrobials are transferred out of their mother’s room in order for antimicrobials to be administered

□ e. N/A my facility does not provide delivery services

If answer choice c. or d. was selected above, to which neonatal unit would a baby be transferred in order to receive oral or parenteral antimicrobials (select all that apply):
- Level I Well Newborn Nursery separate from the mother’s room
- Level II Special Care Nursery
- Level II/III or higher Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Antibiotic Stewardship Practices

(completed with input from Physician and Pharmacist Stewardship Leaders)

Facility leadership has demonstrated commitment to antibiotic stewardship efforts by: (Check all that apply.)

Our facility has a leader or co-leaders responsible for antibiotic stewardship program management and outcomes. □ Yes □ No
1. If Yes, what is the position of this leader? (Check one.)
  - Physician
  - Pharmacist
  - Co-led by both Pharmacist and Physician
  - Other (for example, RN, PA, NP, etc.; specify):________________

If Physician or Co-led is selected, which of the following describes your antibiotic stewardship physician leader? (Check all that apply.)
- Has antibiotic stewardship responsibilities in their contract job description, or performance review
- Is physically on-site in your facility (either part-time or full-time
- Completed an ID fellowship
- Completed a certificate program on antibiotic stewardship
- Completed other training(s) (for example, conferences or online modules) on antibiotic stewardship
- None of the above

If ‘Has antibiotic stewardship responsibilities in their contract or job description’ is selected (for physician (co) leader): What percentage of time for antibiotic stewardship activities is specified in the physician (co) leader’s contract or job description? (Check one.)
- 1-10% □ 51-75%
- 11-25% □ 76-100%
- 26-50% □ Not specified

If Physician or Co-led is selected: In an average week, what percentage of time does the physician (co) leader spend on antibiotic stewardship activities in your facility? (Check one.)
- 1-10% □ 51-75%
- 11-25% □ 76-100%
- 26-50%

If Pharmacist or Co-led is selected, which of the following describes your antibiotic stewardship pharmacist leader? (Check all that apply.)

Antibiotic Stewardship Practices (continued)
- Has antibiotic stewardship responsibilities in their contract, job description, or performance review
- Is physically on-site in your facility (either part-time or full-time)
- Completed a PGY2 ID residency and/or ID fellowship
- Completed a certificate program on antibiotic stewardship
- Completed other training(s) (for example, conferences or online modules) on antibiotic stewardship
- None of the above

If ‘Has antibiotic stewardship responsibilities in their contract or job description’ is selected (for pharmacist (co) leader): What percent time for antibiotic stewardship activities is specified in the pharmacist (co) leader’s contract or job description? (Check one)
- 1-10% □ 51-75%
- 11-25% □ 76-100%
- 26-50% □ Not specified

If ‘Pharmacist’ or ‘Co-led’ is selected: In an average week, what percentage of time does the pharmacist (co) leader spend on antibiotic stewardship activities in your facility? (Check one)
- 1-10% □ 26-50% □ 76-100%
- 11-25% □ 51-75%
If Pharmacist or Other is selected: Does your facility have a designated physician who can serve as a point of contact and support for the non-physician leader?

□ Yes □ No

If a pharmacist is not the leader or co-leader for the program, is there at least one pharmacist responsible for improving antibiotic use at your facility?

□ Yes □ No

Our facility has the following priority antibiotic stewardship interventions: (Check all that apply)

□ Prospective audit and feedback for specific antibiotic agents

If Prospective audit and feedback is selected: Our antibiotic stewardship program monitors prospective audit and feedback interventions (for example, by tracking antibiotic use, types of interventions, acceptance of recommendations).

□ Yes □ No

□ Preauthorization for specific antibiotic agents.

If Preauthorization is selected: Our antibiotic stewardship program monitors preauthorization interventions (for example, by tracking which agents are requested for which conditions).

□ Yes □ No

□ Facility-specific treatment recommendations, based on national guidelines and local pathogen susceptibilities, to assist with antibiotic selection for common clinical conditions (for example, community-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infection, skin and soft tissue infection)

If Facility-specific treatment recommendations is selected: For which common clinical conditions?
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- Urinary tract infection

Antibiotic Stewardship Practices (continued)

Skin and soft tissue infection
None of the above

If Facility-specific treatment recommendations is selected: Our stewardship program monitors adherence to our facility’s treatment recommendations for antibiotic selection for common clinical conditions (for example, community-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infection, skin and soft tissue infection).

□ Yes □ No

If Yes: For which common clinical conditions?
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- Urinary tract infection
- Skin and soft tissue infection
- None of the above

□ None of the above

Our facility has a policy or formal procedure for other interventions to ensure optimal use of antibiotics: (Check all that apply.)

□ Early administration of effective antibiotics to optimize the treatment of sepsis

□ Treatment protocols for Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection

□ Stopping unnecessary antibiotic(s) in new cases of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI)

□ Review of culture-proven invasive (for example, bloodstream) infections

□ Review of planned outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT)

□ The treating team to review antibiotics 48-72 hours after initial order (specifically, antibiotic time-out).

□ Assess and clarify documented penicillin allergy

□ Using the shortest effective duration of antibiotics at discharge for common clinical conditions (for example, community-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infections, skin, and soft tissue infections)

□ None of the above

If ‘Using the shortest effective duration of antibiotics at discharge for common clinical conditions’ is selected: Our stewardship program monitors adherence in using the shortest effective duration of antibiotics at discharge for common clinical conditions (for example, community-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infections, skin and soft tissue infections), at least annually.

□ Yes □ No

Our facility has in place the following specific ‘pharmacy-based’ interventions: (Check all that apply)

Our stewardship program has engaged bedside nurses in actions to optimize antibiotic use.

□ Yes □ No

Antibiotic Stewardship Practices (continued)

If Yes is selected: Our facility has in place the following specific ‘nursing-based’ interventions: (Check all that apply.)
- Nurses receive training on appropriate criteria for sending urine and/or respiratory cultures.
- Nurses initiate discussions with the treating team on switching from intravenous to oral antibiotics.
- Nurses initiate antibiotic time-out discussions with the treating team.
- Nurses track antibiotic duration of therapy.
- None of the above

Our stewardship program monitors: (Check all that apply.)

Our stewardship team provides the following antibiotic use reports to prescribers, at least annually: (Check all that apply.)

□ Individual, prescriber-level reports

□ Unit- or service-specific reports

□ None of the above

If ‘Individual, prescriber-level reports’ or ‘Unit- or service-specific reports’ is selected: Our stewardship program uses these reports to target feedback to prescribers about how they can improve their antibiotic prescribing, at least annually.

□ Yes □ No

Our facility distributes an antibiogram to prescribers, at least annually.

□ Yes □ No

Information on antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance, and stewardship efforts is reported to hospital staff, at least annually.

□ Yes □ No

Which of the following groups receive education on optimal prescribing, adverse reactions from antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance (for example, Grand Rounds, in-service training, direct instruction) at least annually? (Check all that apply.)

Antibiotic Stewardship Practices (continued)

Are patients provided education on important side effects of prescribed antibiotics?

□ Yes □ No

If ‘Yes’ is selected: How is education to patients on side effects shared? (Check all that apply.)
- Discharge paperwork
- Verbally by nurse
- Verbally by pharmacist
- Verbally by physician
- None of the above

Sepsis Management and Practices

Our facility has a program or committee charged with monitoring and improving sepsis care and/or outcomes.

□ Yes □ No

If Yes: The responsibilities of this committee include the following: (Check all that apply; check at least one)
- Developing and updating hospital sepsis guidelines
- Developing and updating hospital sepsis order sets
- Monitor and review compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid SEP-1 measure
- Monitor and review effectiveness of early sepsis identification strategies
- Monitoring and reviewing management of patients with sepsis
- Monitor and review outcomes among patients with sepsis
- Monitor and review antimicrobial use in sepsis in conjunction with antimicrobial stewardship or infectious disease staff
- Providing education to hospital staff on sepsis
- Setting annual goals for sepsis management and/or outcomes
- None of the above

If Yes: This program or committee includes the following healthcare personnel: (Check all that apply; check at least one)

□ Physician	□ Quality improvement staff member
□ Nurse	□ Case manager
□ Pharmacist	□ Microbiology staff member or Laboratory staff member
□ Advanced practice provider (for example, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner	□ Discharge planner
□ Hospital Epidemiologist or Infection prevention professional	□ Patients/families/caregivers
□ Phlebotomist	□ Outpatient clinicians
□ Social worker	□ None of the above

Sepsis Management and Practices (continued)

If Yes:, This program or committee includes representatives from the following locations or services (Check all that apply; check at least one)

□ Antimicrobial Stewardship	□ Laboratory
□ Critical Care / Intensive Care (excluding Neonatal Intensive Care)	□ Neonatal Intensive Care
□ Data Analytics	□ Obstetrics/Labor and Deliver
□ Emergency Medicine	□ Pediatrics
□ Hospital Medicine	□ Pharmacy
□ Infectious Diseases	□ None of the above
□ Information Technology

Our facility has one leader or two co-leaders responsible for sepsis program or committee management and outcomes. (Check one)

□ Yes

□ No (we have no designated leaders)

□ No (we have more than 2 leaders)

If yes selected in 54: What is the professional background of the sepsis program or committee leaders(s)?
- Advanced practice provider (APP)
- Nurse
- Physician
- None of the above

If Yes selected in 54: Did the sepsis program leader(s) participate in responding to these questions? (Check one)
- Yes
- No

If APP selected in #54a: What percentage of the APP leader’s effort is specified for sepsis activities? If there are two APP leaders, please indicate the sum of their combined effort if it were applied towards a single APP. (Check one)

□ 0% (Sepsis activities are voluntary with no specified effort)	□ 26 to 50%
□ 1 to 10%	□ More than 50%
□ 11 to 25%	□ Not specified

Sepsis Management and Practices (continued)

If nurse selected in #54a.: What percentage of the nurse leader’s effort is specified for sepsis activities? If there are two nurse leaders, please indicate the sum of their combined effort if it were applied towards a single nurse. (Check one)

□ 0% (Sepsis activities are voluntary with no specified effort)	□ 26 to 50%
□ 1 to 10%	□ More than 50%
□ 11 to 25%	□ Not specified

If physician selected in #54a.: What percentage of the physician leader’s effort is specified for sepsis activities? If there are two physician leaders, please indicated the sum of their combined effort if it were applied towards a single physician.

□ 0% (Sepsis activities are voluntary with no specified effort)	□ 26 to 50%
□ 1 to 10%	□ More than 50%
□ 11 to 25%	□ Not specified

Facility leadership has demonstrated commitment to improving sepsis care by: (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Our facility uses the following approaches to assist in the identification of sepsis upon presentation to the hospital: (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Our facility uses the following approaches to assist in identification of sepsis throughout hospitalization: (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Sepsis Management and Practices (continued)

Our facility uses the following approaches to promote evidence-based management of patients with sepsis: (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Our facility uses the following approaches to promote rapid antimicrobial delivery to patients with sepsis: (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Our facility uses the following approaches to facilitate recovery after sepsis hospitalization: (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Our facility uses the following approaches to ensure that all patients hospitalized with sepsis (or their family or caregivers), are educated on their diagnosis of sepsis, the underlying infection, and signs and symptoms of new infection or sepsis. (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Sepsis Management and Practices (continued)

Our facility tracks the following hospital sepsis metrics: (Check all that apply; check at least one.)

Describe your facility’s use of chart review for sepsis performance evaluation and improvement: (Check all that apply.)

We routinely review some or all sepsis hospitalizations to influence clinical care in real-time.
We routinely review some or all sepsis hospitalization within 48 hours to provide positive feedback to individual clinicians on areas where care excelled.
We routinely review some or all sepsis hospitalization within 48 hours to provide constructive feedback to individual clinicians on areas where care could be improved.
We routinely review some or all sepsis hospitalizations to evaluate performance or to inform quality improvement work (e.g., root-cause analysis).
We review charts for other purposes.
We do not complete routine chart reviews of sepsis hospitalizations.

Sepsis treatment and/or outcome data are reported to unit-based or service-based leadership at following frequency: (Check one)

□ Continuously (e.g., a sepsis dashboard that updates in real-time)

□ At least monthly

□ At least quarterly

□ At least annually

□ Not reported or reported less often than annually

[If Q64 has one of the following answers selected: “continuously”, “at least monthly”, “at least quarterly”, or “at least annually”] Feedback data provided to clinician and/or unit-based leadership on sepsis treatment and outcomes includes the following elements at least annually: (Check all that apply; check at least one)
- Unit-specific or service-specific data
- Clinician-specific data
- Benchmarking or comparative data (i.e., comparison to other similar units or hospitals)
- Temporal trends (i.e., how treatment or outcomes have changed overtime)
- None of the above

Sepsis Management and Practices (continued)

Our facility provides education on sepsis to the following groups as part of their hiring or onboarding process: (Check all that apply; check at least one)
Our facility provides sepsis education to the following groups at least annually, for example through lectures, staff meetings, etc.: (check all that apply; check at least one)

Facility Water Management Program (WMP) (Completed with input from WMP team members.)

Does your facility have a water management program (WMP) to prevent the growth and transmission of Legionella and other opportunistic waterborne pathogens (for example, Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Burkholderia, Stenotrophomonas, nontuberculous mycobacteria, and fungi)?

□ Yes □ No

If Yes, who is represented on your facility WMP team? (Check all that apply):

□ Hospital Epidemiologist/Infection Preventionist	□ Compliance/Safety Officer
□ Hospital Administrator/Leadership	□ Risk/Quality Management Staff
□ Facilities Manager/Engineer	□ Infectious Disease Clinician
□ Maintenance Staff	□ Consultant
□ Equipment/Chemical Acquisition/Supplier	□ Laboratory Staff/Leadership
□ Environmental Services	□ Other (specify): ____________________

Has your facility ever conducted an environmental assessment to identify where Legionella and other opportunistic waterborne pathogens could grow and spread in the facility water system (for example, piping infrastructure)? This may include a description of building water systems using text or basic diagrams that map all water supply sources, treatment systems, processing steps, control measures, and end-use points.

□ Yes □ No

Facility Water Management Program (WMP) (continued)

If Yes, when was the most recent assessment conducted? (Check one)

□ Within the most recent year (≤ 1 year ago)

□ Between 1 and 3 years ago (> 1 year and ≤ 3 years)

□ More than 3 years ago (> 3 years)

Has your facility ever conducted a water infection control risk assessment (WICRA) to evaluate water sources, modes of transmission, patient susceptibility, patient exposure, and/or program preparedness? An example WICRA tool can be accessed at https://www.cdc.gov/hai/pdfs/prevent/water-assessment-tool-508.pdf

□ Yes □ No

If Yes, when was the most recent assessment conducted? (Check one)

□ Within the most recent year (≤ 1 year ago)

□ Between 1 and 3 years ago (> 1 year and ≤ 3 years)

□ More than 3 years ago (> 3 years)

Does your facility regularly monitor the following parameters in the building water system(s)?

Disinfectant (such as residual chlorine): □ Yes □ No

If Yes, does your facility have a plan for corrective actions when disinfectant(s) are not within acceptable limits as determined by the water management program? □ Yes □ No
If Yes, where and how frequently does your facility monitor disinfectant(s)? (Check all that apply)

Location	Daily	Weekly	Monthly	Quarterly	Annually	Other (specify): _______	N/A
Entry Points	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Cold Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Supply	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Return	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Cold Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Hot Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Other (specify):_________	□	□	□	□	□	□	□

Facility Water Management Program (WMP) (continued)

Water Temperature: □ Yes □ No

If Yes, does your facility have a plan for corrective actions when water temperatures are not within acceptable limits as determined by the water management program? □ Yes □ No
If Yes, where and how frequently does your facility monitor water temperature? (check all that apply)

Location	Daily	Weekly	Monthly	Quarterly	Annually	Other (specify): _______	N/A
Entry Points	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Cold Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Supply	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Return	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Cold Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Hot Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Other (specify):_________	□	□	□	□	□	□	□

Water pH: □ Yes □ No

If Yes, does your facility have a plan for corrective actions when water pH is not within acceptable limits as determined by the water management program? □ Yes □ No
If Yes, where and how frequently does your facility monitor water pH? (check all that apply)

Location	Daily	Weekly	Monthly	Quarterly	Annually	Other (specify): _______	N/A
Entry Points	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Cold Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Supply	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Return	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Cold Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Hot Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Other (specify):_________	□	□	□	□	□	□	□

Facility Water Management Program (WMP) (continued)

Heterotrophic plate count (HPC) testing: □ Yes □ No

If Yes, does your facility have a plan for corrective actions when heterotrophic plate counts are not within acceptable limits as determined by the water management program? □ Yes □ No
If Yes, where and how frequently does your facility perform HPC testing? (check all that apply)

Location	Daily	Weekly	Monthly	Quarterly	Annually	Other (specify): _______	N/A
Entry Points	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Cold Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Supply	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Return	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Cold Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Hot Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Other (specify):_________	□	□	□	□	□	□	□

Specific environmental Legionella testing: □ Yes □ No

If Yes, does your facility have a plan for corrective actions when environmental tests for Legionella are not within acceptable limits as determined by the water management program? □ Yes □ No
If Yes, where an how frequently does your facility perform Legionella testing? (check all that apply)

Location	Daily	Weekly	Monthly	Quarterly	Annually	Other (specify): _______	N/A
Entry Points	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Cold Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Supply	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Return	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Cold Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Hot Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Other (specify):_________	□	□	□	□	□	□	□

Facility Water Management Program (WMP) (continued)

Specific environmental Pseudomonas testing: □ Yes □ No

If Yes, does your facility have a plan for corrective actions when environmental tests for Pseudomonas are not within acceptable limits as determined by the water management program?

□ Yes □ No

If Yes, where an how frequently does your facility perform Pseudomonas testing? (check all that apply)

Location	Daily	Weekly	Monthly	Quarterly	Annually	Other (specify): _______	N/A
Entry Points	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Cold Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Potable Water Storage Tank(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Supply	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Hot Water Return	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Cold Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Representative Locations Throughout Hot Potable Building Water System(s)	□	□	□	□	□	□	□
Other (specify):_________	□	□	□	□	□	□	□

Does your facility water management program address measures to prevent transmission of pathogens from wastewater premise plumbing to patients?

□ Yes □ No □ N/A, my facility does not have a water management program

Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Practices

Our facility uses the following venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention practices (select all that apply, and select at least one)

Our facility has embedded the VTE prevention protocol in admission order sets.

Yes □ No

Our facility provides VTE prevention education for clinicians annually.
Our facility provides VTE prevention education for patients during their stay at our facility.
Our facility performs audits to determine whether patients are on risk-appropriate VTE prophylaxis and provides clinician feedback for quality improvement.
Our facility tracks the incidence of VTE that develops during a patient’s stay at our facility (VTE not present on admission).
Our facility does not use any of the above VTE prevention practices.

Prevention Practices

Our facility utilizes a checklist or bundle for prevention of the following HAIs. (Check all that apply)

CLABSI

At what minimum, regular frequency is adherence to the checklist/bundle monitored/measured? Check one.

Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly
Yearly
PRN
Other
Not regularly monitored/measured