Systems That Learn for Improving Patient Care

We introduced a new patient safety standard that has reduced the number of MRSA infections by more than 40% in our facilities.

Our scale enables us to study large numbers of patients in a relatively short amount of time. So when the medical community was looking for new ways to prevent deadly MRSA infections, we implemented a study involving 330,000 patients across 43 of our hospitals. What we learned resulted in a new standard that has reduced MRSA infections by more than 40% in our facilities.

Find out more about our MRSA study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Read more about our latest work in infection prevention in The Lancet.

Additional resources

• Fierce Healthcare: HCA Healthcare found it could achieve a more than 30% cut in hospital-acquired bloodstream infections
• American Hospital Association: NIH trial with HCA Healthcare hospitals reduces bloodstream infections sharply