CUSP CAUTI ICU-Cohort 9

Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program for Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Intensive Care Unit

This is a nine-month initiative ending in August 2015. The goals of CUSP CAUTI – ICU include:

• Reducing or eliminating CAUTI in the ICU.     
• Increasing awareness of appropriate catheter use in the ICU.
• Reducing indwelling urinary catheter utilization in ICU.
• Reducing ICU patient discomfort, bacteriuria and symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTIs).

Implementing the CUSP Model in the ICU Fourteen Oklahoma hospitals are participating in CUSP CAUTI ICU-Cohort 9:  

• Cherokee Nation WW Hastings Hospital, Tahlequah 
• Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Lawton 
• Deaconess Hospital, Oklahoma City 
• Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center, Poteau 
• Integris Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City 
• Integris Baptist Regional Health Center, Miami 
• Integris Grove Hospital Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma, Durant 
• Ponca City Medical Center Saint Francis Hospital, Tulsa 
• St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital 
• St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Enid 
• Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City 
• Wagoner Community Hospital