pulmonary disorders
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Health Care Associated Pneumonia
 for hospital-acquired pneumonia. Health care-associated pneumonia includes community based patients who have had recent contact with the health care system, such as those who reside in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities or visit dialysis centers and infusion centers. This category was created to help identify patients at increased risk for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. However, the 2016 IDSA guidelines found increasing evidence that many patients with health care-associated pneumonia were not infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Rather, the risk for antibiotic-resistant bacteria in these patients can be based on validated risk factors described for patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults . 