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The National Prevention Strategy, launched in 2011, includes tobacco management as one of seven priorities throughout the united states Of these hospital-acquired events, catheter-associated urinary tract infections are among the many most common. Research has shown that a vital portion of those infections can be prevented, avoiding affected person morbidity and mortality from this HAI while reducing costs accrued to the healthcare system. At any given time, about one in every 25 hospitalized patients has a healthcare-associated infection while over 1 million HAIs occur across the U.S. healthcare system yearly. These infections can result in vital morbidity and mortality, with tens of hundreds of lives lost each year. To reduce the nationwide rate of healthcare-associated infections by September 30, 2015 by demonstrating a 10% reduction in national hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections from the present SIR of 1.03 to a target SIR of 0.92. Veterans Academic A...