Case Study: North Memorial achieves 50% reduction in CAUTI surveillance activities with Health Catalyst’s EDW and CAUTI Module

How Community Care Physicians Can Deliver Effective Population Health Management with Clinical Analytics

North Memorial Health Care, a 518‑bed health system in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, faced a growing, labor‑intensive challenge to expand catheter‑associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) surveillance across multiple units to meet proposed CMS reporting requirements. To move beyond monthly 8–16 hour ICU chart reviews and manual nightly unit logs, North Memorial engaged Health Catalyst and its Late‑Binding™ Enterprise Data Warehouse and Patient Injury Prevention Advanced Application — CAUTI Module.

Health Catalyst deployed the CAUTI module into North Memorial’s EDW in a 10‑week implementation, automating near‑real‑time surveillance with drill‑down reporting and analytics. The vendor’s solution is estimated to reduce CAUTI surveillance activities by 50–90%, potentially eliminate manual data tracking after validation, and free infection preventionists and charge nurses from hours of monthly reporting so they can focus on preventing infections.

North Memorial

Nicky Mack

Registered Nurse, Outpatient Care Navigator,