Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF1725

"The Hospital Infections Disclosure and Prevention Act"; requiring hospitals to
collect data on hospital-acquired infections and submit the information to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network
(NHSN); requiring hospitals to give the commissioner of health access to certain
data from NHSN; requiring physicians performing certain procedures to report
certain information to hospitals; prohibiting the hospital disclosure of patient
information; requiring commissioner to report data annually to the legislature;
requiring the commissioner to appoint an advisory committee to assist the
commissioner in compliance; specifying certain penalties
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