Welcome to the USAID-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project website.
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HP+ is supporting the Honduran Ministry of Health to create a robust strategy for the surveillance, control, and prevention of healthcare-associated infections to help improve the quality of care provided in hospitals and prepare for future threats. As part of this effort, from June 2021 to May 2022, HP+ worked with the Ministry of Health to evaluate surveillance, control, and prevention of healthcare-acquired infections in 20 of the country’s 32 hospitals. For the infection, prevention, and control evaluation, findings showed significant differences between hospitals with 10% at a basic level, 55% at an intermediate level, and 35% at an advanced level. For the hand hygiene evaluation, levels were slightly lower. Findings and suggestions from hospital teams were used to develop strategic policy guidance. In late May to early June 2022, the strengthening phase of the activity began, including both a virtual pre-workshop with 91 participants and a two-day in-person workshop in Tegucigalpa with 26 participants. These activities trained infection prevention and control teams and quality coordinators from 11 hospitals in the use of quality improvement tools and supported them in the development of improvement plans for the control and prevention of healthcare-acquired infections. These activities were chaired by the Ministry of Health authorities for hospital-level care and quality who plan to continue training additional hospitals.
HP+ is supporting the Honduran Ministry of Health to create a robust strategy for the surveillance, control, and prevention of healthcare-associated infections to help improve the quality of care provided in hospitals and prepare for future threats. As part of this effort, from June 2021 to May 2022, HP+ worked with the Ministry of Health to evaluate surveillance, control, and prevention of healthcare-acquired infections in 20 of the country’s 32 hospitals. For the infection, prevention, and control evaluation, findings showed significant differences between hospitals with 10% at a basic level, 55% at an intermediate level, and 35% at an advanced level. For the hand hygiene evaluation, levels were slightly lower. Findings and suggestions from hospital teams were used to develop strategic policy guidance. In late May to early June 2022, the strengthening phase of the activity began, including both a virtual pre-workshop with 91 participants and a two-day in-person workshop in Tegucigalpa with 26 participants. These activities trained infection prevention and control teams and quality coordinators from 11 hospitals in the use of quality improvement tools and supported them in the development of improvement plans for the control and prevention of healthcare-acquired infections. These activities were chaired by the Ministry of Health authorities for hospital-level care and quality who plan to continue training additional hospitals.
HP+ is supporting the Honduran Ministry of Health to create a robust strategy for the surveillance, control, and prevention of healthcare-associated infections to help improve the quality of care provided in hospitals and prepare for future threats. As part of this effort, from June 2021 to May 2022, HP+ worked with the Ministry of Health to evaluate surveillance, control, and prevention of healthcare-acquired infections in 20 of the country’s 32 hospitals. For the infection, prevention, and control evaluation, findings showed significant differences between hospitals with 10% at a basic level, 55% at an intermediate level, and 35% at an advanced level. For the hand hygiene evaluation, levels were slightly lower. Findings and suggestions from hospital teams were used to develop strategic policy guidance. In late May to early June 2022, the strengthening phase of the activity began, including both a virtual pre-workshop with 91 participants and a two-day in-person workshop in Tegucigalpa with 26 participants. These activities trained infection prevention and control teams and quality coordinators from 11 hospitals in the use of quality improvement tools and supported them in the development of improvement plans for the control and prevention of healthcare-acquired infections. These activities were chaired by the Ministry of Health authorities for hospital-level care and quality who plan to continue training additional hospitals.
