Rep. Patricia R. Bellock
Filed: 3/8/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 378
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 378, AS AMENDED, | ||||||
3 | with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. | ||||||
4 | 1, on page 1, by replacing lines 15 and 16 with the following: | ||||||
5 | "(3) Monitoring and strict enforcement of hand hygiene | ||||||
6 | requirements."; and
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7 | by replacing lines 3 through 25 on page 2 and lines 1 through | ||||||
8 | 11 on page 3 with the following: | ||||||
9 | "Section 10. Reporting by Department of Public Health.
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10 | (a) After October 1, 2007, the Department of Public Health | ||||||
11 | shall compile aggregate data for all hospitals on the total | ||||||
12 | number of infections due to methicillin-resistant | ||||||
13 | Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that (1) are present on admission | ||||||
14 | to a hospital and (2) occurred during the hospital stay, | ||||||
15 | reported separately, as compiled from diagnostic codes | ||||||
16 | contained in the Hospital Discharge Dataset provided to the |
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1 | Department; provided, that this reporting requirement shall | ||||||
2 | apply only for patients in all intensive care units and other | ||||||
3 | at-risk patients identified by hospitals for active | ||||||
4 | surveillance testing for MRSA. The Department is authorized to | ||||||
5 | require hospitals, based on guidelines developed by the | ||||||
6 | National Center for Health Statistics, after October 1, 2007, | ||||||
7 | to submit data to the Department that is coded as "present on | ||||||
8 | admission" and "occurred during the stay". | ||||||
9 | (b) The Department shall make such data available on its | ||||||
10 | web site, in an annual report, and on the Hospital Report Card | ||||||
11 | pursuant to the Hospital Report Card Act."; and
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12 | on page 3, by deleting line 23; and
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13 | by deleting all of pages 4 through 7; and
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14 | on page 8, by deleting lines 1 through 11.
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