Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Antimicrobial Stewardship
To receive medical staff credentialing credit:
Antimicrobial stewardship seeks to optimize the use of antimicrobial agents with patients to achieve the best clinical outcome. Efforts are focused on the following criteria:
- Optimal selection
- Dose and duration of antimicrobials
Education Resources
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
- Jody Smith, Assistant 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
- Antibiotic Stewardship Honor Roll recognition from the Georgia Department of Public Health
- Installation of Theradoc surveillance and data-mining system
- Inpatient De-Escalation Alert (IDEA) for broad-spectrum antibiotics
- Use of Physician Message Center for communicating inpatient antibiotic alerts
Future Projects
- Evaluate and implement rapid ID for bloodstream infections and respiratory viral screening with PCR-based testing in lab
Antibiotic Susceptibility Reports
Program Policies
Treatment Guidelines and Recommendations