Changes to the Colorado HAI Reportable Conditions & NHSN Annual Data Freeze

 

To: Infection Preventionists and Facility Administrators From: CDPHE Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR) Program  Changes to Colorado HAI Reportable Conditions On Jan. 27, 2026, the Colorado Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Advisory Committee voted to remove the following conditions from the HAI reportable conditions list in Colorado: Surgical site infections (SSIs) following outpatient colon surgery in acute care hospitals (ACHs) Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in critical access hospitals (CAHs) SSIs following the following procedures in CAHs: Inpatient and outpatient breast surgery Outpatient colon surgery Inpatient and outpatient hysterectomy The committee removed these conditions because the low volume of HAI data made the results statistically unactionable and required suppression in the HAI Annual Report. Effective immediately, the conditions above are no longer reportable in Colorado. Please review the updated list of HAI reportable conditions and confer rights to the appropriate CDPHE National Healthcare Safety Network group for these conditions to ensure you continue to meet all other Colorado HAI reporting requirements. Changes to this list do not alter Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reporting requirements or the Colorado State Board of Health requirements for reporting communicable diseases and conditions.  Annual NHSN Data Freeze April 15, 2026 The reporting deadline for NHSN healthcare-associated infections (HAI) data is April 15, 2026. Please be sure to finish all HAI data reporting by April 15th to be included in the annual report. The HAI/AR Program pulls reportable HAI data from the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) on April 16 for publication in the Annual Report on September 15. Review HAI Reportable Conditions.pdf for details on Colorado’s reportable conditions. NHSN includes data quality checks that can be found in the data quality folder within the supplemental reports. Please run these reports to ensure the quality of your data before submitting. The CDC NHSN Data Quality website provides additional information on data quality.