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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the reporting of health care-associated infections in |
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certain health care facilities. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subsections (a), (b), and (c), Section 98.103, |
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Health and Safety Code, as added by Chapter 359 (S.B. 288), Acts of |
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the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, are amended to read as |
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follows: |
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(a) A health care facility, other than a pediatric and |
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adolescent hospital, shall report to the department the incidence |
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of surgical site infections, including the causative pathogen if |
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the infection is laboratory-confirmed, occurring in the following |
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procedures: |
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(1) colon surgeries; |
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(2) hip arthroplasties; |
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(3) knee arthroplasties; |
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(4) abdominal hysterectomies; |
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(5) vaginal hysterectomies; |
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(6) coronary artery bypass grafts; and |
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(7) vascular procedures. |
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(b) A pediatric and adolescent hospital shall report the |
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incidence of surgical site infections, including the causative |
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pathogen if the infection is laboratory-confirmed, occurring in the |
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following procedures to the department: |
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(1) cardiac procedures, excluding thoracic cardiac |
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procedures; |
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(2) ventriculoperitoneal shunt procedures; and |
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(3) spinal surgery with instrumentation. |
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(c) A general hospital shall report the following to the |
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department: |
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(1) the incidence of laboratory-confirmed central |
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line-associated primary bloodstream infections, including the |
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causative pathogen, occurring in any special care setting in the |
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hospital; and |
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(2) the incidence of respiratory syncytial virus |
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occurring in any pediatric inpatient unit in the hospital. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |