Abstract:ObjectiveTo understand the status of healthcareassociated infection(HAI) management in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals as well as integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals in Fujian Province, analyze the existing problems and weak links, and put forward corresponding improvement measures.MethodsA questionnaire was designed through literature and expert consultation, from March to April 2016, 42 secondary and above traditional Chinese medicine hospitals as well as integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals in 8 cities of Fujian Province were conducted onsite investigation, data were analyzed.ResultsA total of 42 hospitals participated in the investigation, 92.86% were traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, 7.14% were integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals; all hospitals set up HAI management committees and HAI management groups of clinical departments, there were 100 HAI management professionals (66 were fulltime, 34 were parttime), nursing staff accounted for 63.00%, junior college and undergraduate personnel accounted for 84.00%, staff with intermediate and senior professional titles accounted for 79.00%. There were significant differences in academic disciplines and education levels among administrators in secondary and tertiary hospitals(P<0.05). All hospitals carried out HAI case surveillance, only 2.38% achieved HAI informational software monitoring, 83.33% carried out comprehensive and targeted monitoring, 42.86%, 71.43%, and 80.95% of hospitals carried out targeted monitoring on multidrugresistant organisms, surgical site infection, and intensive care unit respectively.ConclusionThe environment of majority of Chinese medicine hospitals in Fujian Province improved significantly, organizations of HAI management is rational, staffing and quality of HAI management personnel is imbalanced, HAI monitoring is still at preliminary stage, lack information management, HAI management in key departments is not optimistic.