HNI Healthcare providers partnered with Pharmacy to participate in the hospital's Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. 

The CDC States: New data shows more than half of antibiotic prescribing for selected events in hospitals was not consistent with recommended prescribing practices.  Antibiotic prescribing was not supported in: 79% of patients with community-acquired pneumonia, 77% of patients with urinary tract infections, 47% of patients prescribed fluroquinolone treatment, and 27% of patients prescribed intravenous vancomycin antibiotic.

Hospital prescribers and pharmacists can improve antibiotic prescribing by optimizing antibiotic selection, re-assessing antibiotic treatment when the results of diagnostic testing are available, and using the shortest effective duration of therapy.

Outcome:

With all of this in mind, HNI was able to reduce antimicrobial spend per equivalent discharge to $25.92 in June of 2022 from $47.17 in July of 2020.

This reduction, extrapolated to ~14,777 equivalent discharges a year, saves the hospital $314,011.25 annually.

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