Hospital-Based Infection Reporting Req. - Kaiser State Health Facts

	Hospital-Based Infections Reporting Requirement	Notes

United States	26 Yes

Alabama	No applicable statute	N/A
Alaska	No applicable statute	N/A
Arizona	No applicable statute	N/A
Arkansas	Yes	Health facilities must collect data on healthcare-associated infection rates; facilities may voluntarily submit quarterly reports to the Department of Health on the health facility's healthcare-associated infection rates.
California	Yes	The Healthcare Associated Infection Advisory Committee shall make recommendations for phasing in the implementation and public reporting of additional process measures and outcome measures by January 1, 2008, and, in doing so, shall consider the measures recommended by the CDC.
Colorado	Yes	Beginning July 31, 2007, health facilities required to routinely submit its hospital-acquired infection data to the national healthcare safety network in accordance with national healthcare safety network requirements and procedures.
Connecticut	Yes	By October 2007 Department of Public Health required to have mandatory reporting system for healthcare associated infections and appropriate standardized measures for the reporting of data related to healthcare associated infections.
Delaware	Yes	Hospitals must submit quarterly reports on their hospital-acquired infection rates to the Department of Health and Social Services using the accepted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network ("NHSN") definitions.
District of Columbia	No applicable statute	N/A
Florida	Yes	Health care facilities must electronically report data on hospital-acquired infections to Agency for Healthcare Administration, as specified in regulations.
Georgia	No applicable statute	N/A
Hawaii	No	N/A
Idaho	No applicable statute	N/A
Illinois	Yes	Infection rates to be reported to state Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
Indiana	Yes	A health care facility, a health care professional, or an individual may file with state patient safety data agency reports relating to hospital-acquired infections.
Iowa	No applicable statute	N/A
Kansas	No applicable statute	N/A
Kentucky	No applicable statute	N/A
Louisiana	No applicable statute	N/A
Maine	No applicable statute	N/A
Maryland	Yes	Health care-associated infection information from hospitals to be reported to state
Massachusetts	No applicable statute	N/A
Michigan	No applicable statute	N/A
Minnesota	No applicable statute	By January 1, 2009, the Minnesota Hospital Association shall develop a Web-based system for reporting hospital-specific performance on public reporting measures for hospital-acquired infections.
Mississippi	Yes	N/A
Missouri	Yes	The state shall collect data annually on required nosocomial infection incidence rates from hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and other facilities; Medical facilities must also report nosocomial infection outbreaks (FN 1)
Montana	No applicable statute	N/A
Nebraska	Yes	Each hospital licensed in Nebraska shall, at least annually, provide surgeons performing surgery at such hospital a report as to the number and rates of surgical infections in surgical patients of such surgeon; Health care providers must also report to a patient safety organization all unanticipated deaths or major permanent losses of function associated with health care associated nosocomial infection
Nevada	Yes	Within 14 days of the occurrence, a health care facility must report the date, the time and a brief description of the event to the state health division
New Hampshire	Yes	Each hospital shall regularly report to the department the hospital infection data it has collected, including data on central line related bloodstream infections, ventilator associated pneumonia, surgical wound infections, and urinary tract infections
New Jersey	Yes	A health care entity shall maintain for a period of four years all records and source data relating to its infection rate and shall make the records available to the division, the board which licenses or otherwise authorizes the health care professional, the review panel and the Department of Health and Senior Services, as applicable, upon request
New Mexico	No applicable statute	N/A
New York	Yes	Each general hospital shall maintain a program capable of identifying and tracking hospital acquired infections for the purpose of public reporting under this section and quality improvement. Each hospital shall regularly report to the department the hospital infection data it has collected. (FN 2)
North Carolina	No applicable statute	N/A
North Dakota	No applicable statute	N/A
Ohio	Yes	Hospitals must report volume of infections to director of health.
Oklahoma	Yes	For device-related blood stream infections, hospitals must report to the Hospital Advisory Council.
Oregon	No applicable statute	N/A
Pennsylvania	Yes	Providers must submit to the Health Care Cost Containment Council rates of infection for specified diagnoses and treatments, grouped by severity, for individual providers.
Rhode Island	Yes	Infection outbreaks (as defined by the department of health via regulation) shall be reported to the department of health division of facilities regulation.
South Carolina	Yes	Hospitals shall submit reports at least every six months on their hospital acquired infection rates to the Department of Health. Reports must be submitted in a format and at a time as provided for by the department. These reports must be made available to the public at each hospital and through the department. The first report must be submitted before February 1, 2008.
South Dakota	No applicable statute	N/A
Tennessee	Yes	Every facility shall report unusual events, and certain other defined incidents, to the department of health within seven (7) business days from the facility's identification of the event or incident. These events include intravascular catheter related events including necrosis or infection requiring repair. Most facilities must also report infections to the Centers for Disease Control's National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance/National Healthcare Safety Network (NNIS/NHSN) surveillance system.
Texas	Yes	Health care facilities must report certain enumerated health care-associated infections to the Texas Department of Health. The department shall ensure that the health care-associated infections a health care facility is required to report have the meanings assigned by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Utah	No applicable statute	N/A
Vermont	Yes	Health Care Commissioner shall adopt rules establishing a standard format for community reports, as well as the contents, which shall include measures of hospital-acquired infections that are valid, reliable, and useful, including comparisons to appropriate industry benchmarks.
Virginia	Yes	Acute care hospitals shall report information about nosocomial infections to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network. Such hospitals shall release their infection data to the Board of Health. The specific infections to be reported, the hospitals required to report, and patient populations to be included shall be prescribed by Board regulation. (effective July 1, 2008)
Washington	Yes	Hospitals must collect and report data related to the following health care-associated infections: beginning July 1, 2008, central line-associated bloodstream infection in the intensive care unit; beginning January 1, 2009, ventilator-associated pneumonia; and beginning January 1, 2010, surgical site infection for the following procedures: deep sternal wound for cardiac surgery, including coronary artery bypass graft; total hip and knee replacement surgery; and hysterectomy, abdominal and vaginal. Hospitals must routinely collect and submit the data to the national healthcare safety network of the United States centers for disease control and prevention in accordance with national healthcare safety network definitions, methods, requirements, and procedures.
West Virginia	No applicable statute	N/A
Wisconsin	No applicable statute	N/A
Wyoming	No applicable statute	N/A

Guam	No applicable statute	N/A
Puerto Rico	No applicable statute	N/A
Virgin Islands	No applicable statute	N/A

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Notes:	Data as of February 2008. U.S. total includes territories.
Sources:	Health Policy Tracking Service, a service of Thomson West at www.netscan.com.
Definitions:	Nosocomial infection outbreaks: Infections as defined by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention within a defined time period Hospital acquired infection: Any localized or systemic patient condition that: (a) resulted from the presence of an infectious agent or agents, or its toxin or toxins as determined by clinical examination or by laboratory testing; and (b) was not found to be present or incubating at the time of admission unless the infection was related to a previous admission to the same setting.

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