MN HAI Prevention Advisory Group:
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI)

The Minnesota Department of Health, Infectious Disease Division convened a multi-disciplinary Advisory Group (referred to as the Minnesota HAI Prevention Advisory Group) to establish statewide HAI prevention leadership.

About us

The MN HAI Advisory Group responsibilities are as follows:

• Provide leadership to implementation of the statewide HAI Prevention Plan
• Identify two HAI prevention priorities from the HHS Action Plan that will be the targets of intensive HAI prevention collaboratives. 
• Identify two statewide surveillance measures to be reported to CDC quarterly.

MN HAI Prevention Advisory Group consists of members from the following organizations:

• Minnesota Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative (MARC)   
• Stratis Health
• MDH Divisions of Health Policy, Health Regulation, and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Prevention & Control
• Consumers
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control – Minnesota Chapter (APIC-MN)
• Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA)
• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)
• North Central Chapter Infectious Diseases Society of America (NCCIDSA)