The National Quality Forum (NQF) awarded the 2015 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality at the Local Level to Mayo Clinic-Rochester, for its work to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Launched in 2002 by NQF and The Joint Commission, the patient safety awards program honors the late John M. Eisenberg, MD, MBA, former administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Within one year, Mayo Clinic-Rochester’s CAUTI prevention initiative reduced CAUTIs by 70 percent hospital wide. In the medical intensive care unit where Mayo Clinic-Rochester launched the program in 2014, CAUTIs dropped to zero and remained at zero through 2015. NQF recently spoke with Priya Sampathkumar, MD, associate professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic-Rochester, about the CAUTI initiative and the Eisenberg award.