Wisconsin Hospital Assocation Report Shows Dropping Rates of Hospital-Acquired Infections in 2017

“In Wisconsin, hospitals are doing better than the national average in preventing infections, but they know better is not good enough,” report authors said.

Wisconsin’s rate of surgical site infections during knee replacements has fallen from 0.65 infections per 100 patients in 2015, to 0.45 infections per 100 patients in 2017. Read the report here.