CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.

Surveillance reports published by CDC using data from NHSN. Reports include summaries of healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial use and resistance, healthcare personnel influenza vaccination rates, and dialysis events

A guided tour of the training materials and information needed to provide a solid foundation of NHSN.

NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.

When a healthcare facility enrolls in NHSN, CDC will assign an NHSN facility ID number to the facility and invite the Facility Administrator to register with SAMS for completing NHSN enrollment.

The NHSN is a secure, Internet-based surveillance system that expands and integrates patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems managed by the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NHSN is the nation's most widely used healthcare-associated infection (HAI) tracking system. It provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate HAIs.

CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is the nation’s most comprehensive and widely used system to identify emerging and enduring threats across healthcare, such as healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial-resistant infections, and COVID-19.

1 - 1 National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Overview CDC’s NHSN is a secure, web-based surveillance application that is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection (HAI) tracking system.

NHSN enables healthcare facilities to collect and use data about HAIs, adherence to clinical practices known to prevent HAIs, the incidence or prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms within their organizations, trends and coverage of healthcare personnel safety and vaccination, and adverse events related to the transfusion of blood and ...