​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Antimicrobial Stewardship​​

To receive medical staff credentialing credit​:

1. ​Review the antimicrobial stewardship information below.
2. Fill out and submit the ​attestation form for Atrium Health Floyd​.​
   

​​Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee​

A multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship team meets quarterly to review trends in antimicrobial use, resistance patterns, interventions, and reports its findings and ​recommendations to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.​

• Dr. John Hostetler, External Physician, Infectious Disease Specialist
  
• Dr. Daniel Valancius, Director, ​Hospitalists
  
• Dr. Kelly Culbertson, Program Director and DIO, Family Medicine Residency
  
• Troy Hopper, Pharmacy ​Director, Pharmacy​
  
• Matt Middleton, Clinical Pharmacist
  
• Greta Freeman, Microbiology Director
  
• Gary Latta, Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator
  
• Karyn Lyon, Registered Nurse, Epidemiology
  
• ​Robin​ Cater, Registered Nurse
  

Team Progress

• Implemented extended-infusion beta lactam therapy (for piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime and meropenem)
• Implemented rapid ID for blood stream infections and respiratory viral screening with PCR-based testing in lab
  
• Transitioned from tracking antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance, and stewardship interventions in Theradoc to Epic​​

Future Projects

• Convert the current reporting of antimicrobial use to NHSN via ASOLVA to Epic​​
• ​​Begin reporting antimicrobial resistance to NHSN via Epic​​​​

Antibiotic Susceptibility Reports​

• ​​​​Inpatient Antibiogram, January - June 2024​
  
• ​ECC​ Antibiogram​​​, January - June 2024​​

​Program Policies​

• Antimicrobial Stewardship
  
• ​De-Escalation of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics​​
  
• ​Restricted Antibiotics​​
  
• ​IV to PO Interchange by a Pharmacist
  
• MRSA Nasal Screening​​​
  

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