2007 House Bill 1106 (Requiring reporting of hospital-acquired infections in health care facilities.)

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• Introduced by Rep. Tom Campbell, (R-Roy) on January 10, 2007, to require the Department of Health to adopt rules and regulations regarding health care-associated infections in hospitals. Hospitals would be required to submit quarterly reports to the Department of Health related to infections obtained in hospitals. Such reports would be exempt from public disclosure requirements.
  • Referred to the House Health Care and Wellness Committee on January 10, 2007.
    • Substitute offered to the House Health Care and Wellness Committee on February 8, 2007, to require hospitals to report routinely to the CDCs' National Healthcare Safety Network, instead of the DOH, with a reporting phase-in that begins on July 1, 2008. The substitute bill also allows the DOH to add other reporting categories if those categories are reported through the CDC and are determined to be necessary to protect public health and safety, and to remove reporting requirements that are determined to be no longer necessary to protect public health and safety. The substitute bill goes on to appropriate $480,000 from the State General Fund to the DOH for surveillance and other activities related to preventing the spread of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and other multi-drug resistant organisms. The substitute failed in the House by voice vote on February 8, 2007.
  • Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on February 12, 2007.
    • Substitute offered to the House Appropriations Committee on February 27, 2007, to authorize the Department of Health (DOH) to require reporting under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program as opposed to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network if such reporting is recommended by the advisory committee established in the bill; reported procedures and events are substantially the same; the information is available to the DOH; and the DOH determines that reporting to the CMS Hospital Compare program will facilitate reporting and will provide substantially the same information to the hospitals and the public as reporting under the CDC system. Ambulatory surgical centers would continue reporting under the CDC system unless the DOH determines that the Hospital Compare is available to them. The Appropriations Committee required reporting to be overseen by a trained infection control professional in all hospitals. Additionally, a general fund state appropriation in the amount of $480,000 for the DOH to implement a program to prevent and monitor the spread of multi-drug resistant organisms is removed. The substitute passed in the House by voice vote on February 27, 2007.
  • Referred to the House Rules Committee on February 28, 2007.
• Passed in the House (86 to 10) on March 8, 2007. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on March 10, 2007.
  • Referred to the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee on March 10, 2007.
    • Amendment offered to the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee on March 28, 2007, to require the primary reporting obligations to be based on the National Quality Forum definitions with reporting to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' hospital compare program. Allows reporting to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the default and makes National Quality Forum endorsed measures the primary reporting obligation. The definition of hospital no longer includes ambulatory surgical facility. A stakeholder group will be convened by the DOH to review existing protocols for infection control at freestanding and hospital owned ambulatory surgical centers. This group will make recommendations to DOH by December 15, 2007, regarding whether ambulatory surgical facilities should be subject to the requirement of this law. Reporting to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be required in 2008, 2009, and 2010, if the National Quality Forum measures are not available for reporting to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as determined by October of the preceding year.
  • Referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on March 30, 2007.
  • Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on April 2, 2007.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Karen Keiser, (D-Kent) on April 11, 2007, to strike the original bill and make changes requiring reporting of hospital-acquired infections in health care facilities. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on April 11, 2007.
• Passed in the Senate (49 to 0) on April 11, 2007. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on April 16, 2007. Passed in the House (93 to 2) on April 16, 2007. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Signed by Gov. Christine Gregoire on May 2, 2007.

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Introduced by Rep. Tom Campbell, (R-Roy) on January 10, 2007. Passed in the House (86 to 10) on March 8, 2007. New Comment