H.B. 55
         HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS

House Committee Amendments

Amendment 1 January 23, 2012 12:10 PM



Representative Jack R. Draxler proposes the following amendments:

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             17          .    requires an ambulatory surgical facility, a general acute hospital,
  an end stage renal disease facility,       and a specialty


2.    Page 3, Line 66 :    

             66          [(5)] (6)
  "End stage renal disease facility" is as defined in Section 26-21-2.

    (7)  
"Epidemic" means the occurrence or outbreak in a community or region of


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             73          
{   (7)   }        (8)       "General acute hospital" is as defined in Section 26-21-2 .

             74          [(6)]
{   (8)   }        (9)       "Incubation period" means the time interval between exposure to an infectious


4.    Page 3, Line 76 :    

             76          [(7)]
{   (9)   }        (10)       "Infected individual" means an individual who harbors an infectious agent and


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             79          [(8)]
{   (10)   }        (11)       "Infection" means the entry and development or multiplication of an


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             84          [(9)]
{   (11)   }        (12)       "Infectious agent" means an organism such as a virus, rickettsia, bacteria,


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             86          [(10)]
{   (12)   }        (13)       "Infectious disease" means a disease of man or animals resulting from an

             87      infection.
             88          [(11)]
{   (13)   }        (14)       "Isolation" means the separation, for the period of communicability, of


8.    Page 4, Line 92 :    

             92          [(12)]
{   (14)   }        (15)       "Quarantine" means the restriction of the activities of well individuals or


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             95          [(13)]
{   (15)   }        (16)       "School" means a public, private, or parochial nursery school, licensed or


10.    Page 4, Line 98 :    

             98          [(14)]
{   (16)   }        (17)       "Sexually transmitted disease" means those diseases transmitted through


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             100          
{   (17)   }        (18)       "Specialty hospital" is as defined in Section 26-21- 2.


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             160          (1) An ambulatory surgical facility, a general acute hospital,
{   and   } a specialty hospital        , an end stage renal disease facility, and other facilities as required by rules of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services      

             161      shall give the department access to the facility's data on the incidence and rate of health care
             162      associated infections that the facility submits to the National Healthcare Safety Network in the
             163      Center for Disease Control pursuant to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services rules for
             164      infection reporting
{   under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System   } . Access to data under this

             165      Subsection (1) may include data sharing through the National Healthcare Safety Network.


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