HB0378ham003 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

Filed: 3/8/2007

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 378

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 378, AS AMENDED, with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 1, on page 1, by replacing lines 15 and 16 with the following:

"(3) Monitoring and strict enforcement of hand hygiene requirements."; and

by replacing lines 3 through 25 on page 2 and lines 1 through 11 on page 3 with the following:

"Section 10. Reporting by Department of Public Health.

(a) After October 1, 2007, the Department of Public Health shall compile aggregate data for all hospitals on the total number of infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that (1) are present on admission to a hospital and (2) occurred during the hospital stay, reported separately, as compiled from diagnostic codes contained in the Hospital Discharge Dataset provided to the Department; provided, that this reporting requirement shall apply only for patients in all intensive care units and other at-risk patients identified by hospitals for active surveillance testing for MRSA. The Department is authorized to require hospitals, based on guidelines developed by the National Center for Health Statistics, after October 1, 2007, to submit data to the Department that is coded as "present on admission" and "occurred during the stay".

(b) The Department shall make such data available on its web site, in an annual report, and on the Hospital Report Card pursuant to the Hospital Report Card Act."; and

on page 3, by deleting line 23; and

by deleting all of pages 4 through 7; and

on page 8, by deleting lines 1 through 11.