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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the MRSA | ||||||
| 5 | Screening and Reporting Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 5. MRSA control program. In order to improve the | ||||||
| 7 | prevention of hospital-associated bloodstream infections due | ||||||
| 8 | to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ("MRSA"), every | ||||||
| 9 | hospital shall establish an MRSA control program that requires: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) Identification of all MRSA-colonized patients in | ||||||
| 11 | all intensive care units, and other at-risk patients | ||||||
| 12 | identified by the hospital, through active surveillance | ||||||
| 13 | testing. | ||||||
| 14 | (2) Isolation of identified MRSA-colonized or | ||||||
| 15 | MRSA-infected patients in an appropriate manner. | ||||||
| 16 | (3) Monitoring and strict enforcement of hand hygiene | ||||||
| 17 | requirements. | ||||||
| 18 | (4) Maintenance of records and reporting of cases under | ||||||
| 19 | Section 10 of this Act.
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| 20 | Section 10. Reporting by Department of Public Health.
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| 21 | (a) After October 1, 2007, the Department of Public Health | ||||||
| 22 | shall compile aggregate data for all hospitals on the total | ||||||
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| 1 | number of infections due to methicillin-resistant | ||||||
| 2 | Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that (1) are present on admission | ||||||
| 3 | to a hospital and (2) occurred during the hospital stay, | ||||||
| 4 | reported separately, as compiled from diagnostic codes | ||||||
| 5 | contained in the Hospital Discharge Dataset provided to the | ||||||
| 6 | Department; provided, that this reporting requirement shall | ||||||
| 7 | apply only for patients in all intensive care units and other | ||||||
| 8 | at-risk patients identified by hospitals for active | ||||||
| 9 | surveillance testing for MRSA. The Department is authorized to | ||||||
| 10 | require hospitals, based on guidelines developed by the | ||||||
| 11 | National Center for Health Statistics, after October 1, 2007, | ||||||
| 12 | to submit data to the Department that is coded as "present on | ||||||
| 13 | admission" and "occurred during the stay". | ||||||
| 14 | (b) The Department shall make such data available on its | ||||||
| 15 | web site, in an annual report, and on the Hospital Report Card | ||||||
| 16 | pursuant to the Hospital Report Card Act. | ||||||
| 17 | Section 90. Repeal. This Act is repealed on January 1, | ||||||
| 18 | 2011. | ||||||
| 19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 20 | becoming law.
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