The Washington State Department of Health honors and recognizes long-term care centers that are working to improve antibiotic use, reduce antibiotic resistance, and improve patient outcomes by establishing an antibiotic stewardship program.
To qualify for recognition, each care center has to show a leadership commitment to the program, assign accountability to a team member, offer education on the topic, take a prescribing improvement action, track and monitor antibiotic resistance patterns and identify steps to improve appropriate prescribing.
As you can see from the list here, CHCC is one of only six care centers in the state of Washington that earned placement on the DOH honor roll list. We’re the only long-term care center north of Seattle that has earned this recognition.
Way to go, Dianne Anderson (preventionist), Michele Heutink (assistant nursing director), Heather Lewis (nursing director), Dr. Steven Alexander (medical director), and all of our nurses and physicians!