Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Antimicrobial Stewardship
To receive medical staff credentialing credit:
- Review the antimicrobial stewardship information below.
- Fill out and submit the attestation form for Atrium Health Floyd.
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
Educational Resources
Dosing Guidelines
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
- Troy Hopper, Pharmacy 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