The Department of Public Health shall: (1) Develop a single, uniform method for collecting and analyzing standardized data concerning the linkage between nurse staffing levels and the quality of acute care, long-term care and home care, including patient outcomes; (2) conduct an ongoing study of the relationship between nurse staffing patterns in hospitals and the quality of health care, including patient outcomes; (3) obtain relevant licensure and demographic data that may be available from other state agencies and make the data collected under this subsection available to the public in a standardized format; and (4) collaborate with hospitals and the nursing profession with respect to the collection of standardized data concerning patient care outcomes at such hospitals and make such data available to the public in a report card format.
(P.A. 00-216, S. 20.)
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