Bill Text: NJ A3060 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DHSS to include in NJ Hospital Performance Report data from hospital pediatric emergency medicine registries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-24 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee [A3060 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A3060-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman PAUL D. MORIARTY
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DHSS to include in NJ Hospital Performance Report data from hospital pediatric emergency medicine registries.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning pediatric emergency medicine and supplementing P.L.1992, c.96 (C.26:2K-48 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Department of Health and Senior Services shall compile the data submitted annually by each general hospital from the hospital's pediatric emergency medicine registry, as required pursuant to N.J.A.C.8:43G-12.4, and include in the New Jersey Hospital Performance Report issued annually by the department hospital-specific data from the individual hospital registries. The department shall select those data elements from the hospital registries it deems most relevant for inclusion in the report.
2. This act shall take effect on the 60th day following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to compile the data submitted annually by each general hospital from its pediatric emergency medicine registry, as required pursuant to N.J.A.C.8:43G-12.4, and include in the New Jersey Hospital Performance Report issued annually by the department hospital-specific data from the individual hospital registries. The department is to select those data elements from the hospital registries it deems most relevant for inclusion in the report.
Department of Health and Senior Services regulations provide, at N.J.A.C.8:43G-12.4, that hospital emergency departments shall maintain a "pediatric emergency medicine registry for all emergency department admissions under 18 years of age who either die or are admitted to an intensive care unit or step-down unit." The hospitals are required to submit their registry data on an annual basis to the department. The regulations specify the information to be included in the registry, such as, patient demographic information, baseline medical condition of the patient, nature of the patient's presenting illness, physician professional characteristics, emergency department treatment rendered, information regarding a transfer to intensive care, and clinical information regarding treatment in the intensive care unit. purpose of this bill is to ensure.
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that data from these hospital registries is made available to the public as are other hospital performance data.
