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CDC: health‑department partnerships and NHSSN connect 39,000 facilities for infection tracking
Summary
CDC officials said investments helped build health‑department capacity and expand the National Healthcare Safety Network (about 39,000 enrolled facilities) to improve infection prevention, surveillance testing, and outbreak response across hospitals, nursing homes and other care settings.
Dr. Mike Bell described how AR Solutions Initiative funding helped build health‑department programs and link health‑care facilities into surveillance networks and operational partnerships that improve infection prevention and response.
Bell emphasized that antibiotics are a core safety net for modern medical care and that investments in surveillance and the AR Lab Network allow health departments and clinicians to detect problems and pursue containment without relying on billable hospital tests. He highlighted the National Healthcare Safety Network as a core system—about 39,000 facilities are connected—and said investments in workforce and data systems allow targeted actions where infections occur.
Bell also noted the value of screening and surveillance testing made possible through AR Lab Network budgets and said electronic clinical decision support and stewardship core elements have helped reduce antibiotic use and incorrect prescribing over the past decade.
Panelists urged continued investment to sustain trained personnel, sequencing and bioinformatics capacity, and data‑integration tools at the state and local level.
