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IDSA recognizes 25 institutions as antimicrobial stewardship centers of excellence
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The Infectious Diseases Society of America has designated 25 institutions in the United States as antimicrobial stewardship centers of excellence.
“Each year more than 700,000 people worldwide die due to antimicrobial resistant infections,” IDSA President Paul Auwaerter, MD, MBA, FIDSA, said in a news release. “Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats facing health care on a global, national and individual level.”
The IDSA program was launched in 2017 and “recognizes institutions that have created stewardship programs led by infectious diseases physicians and ID-trained pharmacists that are of the highest quality and have achieved standards established by the CDC,” according to the release.
The institutions recognized by the IDSA are Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis; Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; Cleveland Clinic; Denver Health Medical Center; Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey; Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, California; Montefiore Medical Center in New York; Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital in New Rochelle, New York; New York Presbyterian Hospital – The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell in New York; Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida; Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania; Roper St. Francis Hospital in Charlestown, South Carolina; Rose Medical Center in Denver; Rush University Medical Center in Chicago; Saint Joseph Hospital Lexington, Kentucky; South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, New York; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee; Tufts Medical Center in Boston; University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA Health, in Los Angeles; University Medical Center – New Orleans; University Medical Center – Texas in Lubbock, Texas; UPMC Presbyterian — Shadyside, Presbyterian Campus in Pittsburgh; University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin; Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Virginia; and Womack Army Medical Center in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.
"Antimicrobial stewardship is vital to ensuring not only individuals' health but also the public's health,” Ann MacIntyre, DO, chair of IDSA’s Clinical Affairs Committee, told Infectious Disease News. “IDSA's Centers of Excellence program allows for hospitals to share their expertise in order to further the common goal to improve our patient's and the public's health."
The program “recognizes institutions that share our commitment by establishing antimicrobial stewardship programs that foster optimal therapies that protect patients from dangerous antimicrobial resistant infections while safeguarding our vulnerable drug supply,” Aurwaeter said in the release. “IDSA is proud to partner with each of these institutions in turning the tide against antimicrobial resistance.”
ID physicians and infectious disease-trained pharmacists developed the core criteria for the program, which was based on the CDC’s Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship program, according to the release.