Hospital Acquired Infections

At Beaufort Memorial, it is our goal to make patients better than when they came in to our facility. We understand that hospital-acquired infections can adversely affect patient health and consider their prevention a critical safety priority.

Scoring is based on the number of actual healthcare-associated infections as compared to the expected number of healthcare-associated infections. The national benchmark is a standardized infection ratio of 1.0. We want to stay below that number.