Heart disease is a broad term that refers to several types of heart conditions.
DPH established the Hospital Infections Disclosure Act (HIDA) Advisory Committee as required by the HIDA legislation. The Committee is a multi-disciplinary group with set voting member organizations; representatives of consumers and the general public are also key participants. The member organizations nominate a representative and set their own guidelines for representative rotation schedules. After nomination from their organization, these voting representatives are approved by DPH.
These antibiograms were created to monitor resistance across the State of South Carolina. We hope that individual institutions that may not have access to facility-level antibiograms may utilize these to improve empiric antimicrobial prescribing across the state.
This is an ongoing project; ASC-SC will continue to collect antibiograms each year to create a yearly statewide antibiogram.
For more information about HIDA, please visit the HIDA Requirements webpage.
Under the South Carolina Hospital Infection Disclosure Act (HIDA), DPH publishes public reports of Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) data from acute care hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities. This is to notify the consumers of this report that from October 2016 onwards the following changes have been made to this report:
In 2006, state lawmakers passed the Hospital Infections Disclosure Act (HIDA). This law requires hospitals licensed by the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH), formerly DHEC, to report certain healthcare-associated infection (HAI) events to DPH and the public.
Hospitals are required to report certain types of infections that patients developed while being treated in the hospital.
Hospital Infections Disclosure Act (HIDA)
In May 2006, the South Carolina General Assembly passed the Hospital Infections Disclosure Act. Hospitals must report Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) from selected procedures to the DPH (then. DHEC). The reporting requirements are being phased in.
Compliance with the HIDA Reporting Requirements is a condition of licensure for hospitals that perform the reportable procedures.
On this website you can find:
DPH established the South Carolina Healthcare Alliance for Infection Prevention (SCHAIP) as a multi-disciplinary task force to advise on the prevention of healthcare-associated infections. SCHAIP brings state partners together for the purpose of implementing a coordinated, effective approach to performing infection prevention initiatives in South Carolina. SCHAIP subcommittees are formed as needed, such as when training, research, or special projects are identified by the committee.
SCHAIP includes representatives from the following organizations and groups:
The number one thing you can do to help prevent an infection is to make sure that all doctors, nurses, aides, and other healthcare providers wash their hands before and after they care for you. They can use soap and water or an alcohol based hand sanitizer.
If you do not see them clean their hands, please ask them to do so. It is your right to expect and receive the best care possible.
The Hospital Infections Disclosure Act (HIDA), passed by the South Carolina General Assembly in May 2006, requires hospitals to report specific types of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) to DPH.
