During fiscal year 2004, our rate of 3.38 infection per 1000 catheter days compared favorably with the National Nosocomial infections Surveillance benchmark rate of 5 infection per 1000 catheter day. By the end of fiscal year 2005 ,our infection rate was 2.1 per 1000 catheter day,which remained less than the 2004 pooled mean rate of 4 infection per 1000 catheter day.