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Kentucky infographic showing hai progress

Click here to open the infographic [PDF – 479 KB]

Funding Information

  • 2016 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) funding amount: $977,917
    • Activities: Educational Efforts to Promote Appropriate Antibiotic Use; HAI Detection and Response Infrastructure; Coordinated Prevention; and Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Laboratory Capacity (see ELC HAI-funded Activities for more information)
  • 2015 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) funding amount: $109,500
    • Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure
  • 2015 ELC domestic Ebola supplement: Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Program
    • Infection Control Assessment Program: $583,506
    • Targeted Infection Prevention: $1,284,493
  • 2014 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) funding amount :  $109,500
    • Activity: HAI Prevention Infrastructure
  • 2013 Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding amount: $253,877
    • Activities: HAI Prevention Infrastructure and Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infections Across the Spectrum of Healthcare
  • From 2009-2012 Kentucky received funding to build HAI infrastructure

See entire Kentucky Data Use Agreement [PDF – 366 KB]

See detailed list of data [PDF – 155 KB] in the agreement

State plan to address healthcare-associated infections [PDF – 405 KB]

State Contact:

Andrea Flinchum MPH, BSN, CIC
HAI Prevention Program Manager
Infectious Disease Branch
Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning

Phone: (502) 564-3261 ext 4248
Fax: (502) 564-2816

andrea.flinchum@ky.gov

Kentucky Department for Public Health – Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention

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