Bill Text: HI SB1260 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Health Care-associated Infection.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-27 - Referred to CPH, WAM. [SB1260 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-SB1260-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to health care-associated infection.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that health care-associated infections obtained while receiving medical treatment in a health care facility are a threat to patient safety. Hospital-acquired infections cause close to 100,000 deaths each year in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on any given day about one in twenty-five hospital patients has at least one health care-associated infection. The total cost of health care-associated infections to hospitals nationwide has been estimated at almost $33,000,000,000 per year.
The legislature further finds that each year, the department of health publishes the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report that contains valuable information about how hospitals across the State are doing with regard to health care-associated infections. However, the legislature also finds that the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report is not easily accessible, and the information in the report is not disseminated in a way that benefits patients.
Therefore, the purpose of this Act is to help prevent health care-associated infections by requiring the department of health to create a user-friendly web portal to make available to the public information from the annual Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report.
SECTION 2. The department of health shall create and maintain a public, online data portal of health care-associated infection data published annually in the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report. By January 1, 2018, the health care-associated infection portal shall be accessible online, available to the public, and updated on an annual basis. In addition to providing all information from the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report, the information portal shall enable a user to:
(1) Search the database by type of infection to determine the prevalence of the infection in the State;
(2) Search the database by hospital to determine number of infections and hospital performance compared to national data; and
(3) Search for ways to prevent specific health care-associated infections.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Health Care-Associated Infections; Hospital Infection; Online Portal
Description:
Requires the department of health to create and maintain an online information portal making available to the public by January 1, 2018, the information published annually in the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report. Requires the department to update the portal annually.
The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
