Rep. Patricia R. Bellock
Filed: 3/8/2007
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 378 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 378, AS AMENDED, 
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with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 
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1, on page 1, by replacing lines 15 and 16 with the following:
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        "(3) Monitoring and strict enforcement of hand hygiene 
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    requirements."; and
 

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by replacing lines 3 through 25 on page 2 and lines 1 through 
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11 on page 3 with the following:
 
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    "Section 10. Reporting by Department of Public Health.
 
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    (a) After October 1, 2007, the Department of Public Health 
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shall compile aggregate data for all hospitals on the total 
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number of infections due to methicillin-resistant 
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Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that (1) are present on admission 
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to a hospital and (2) occurred during the hospital stay, 
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reported separately, as compiled from diagnostic codes 
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contained in the Hospital Discharge Dataset provided to the 
 


 






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Department; provided, that this reporting requirement shall 
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apply only for patients in all intensive care units and other 
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at-risk patients identified by hospitals for active 
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surveillance testing for MRSA. The Department is authorized to 
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require hospitals, based on guidelines developed by the 
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National Center for Health Statistics, after October 1, 2007, 
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to submit data to the Department that is coded as "present on 
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admission" and "occurred during the stay".
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    (b) The Department shall make such data available on its 
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web site, in an annual report, and on the Hospital Report Card 
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pursuant to the Hospital Report Card Act."; and
 

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on page 3, by deleting line 23; and
 

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by deleting all of pages 4 through 7; and
 

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on page 8, by deleting lines 1 through 11.