(a) The Department of Public Health shall establish a mandatory reporting system for healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance designed to prevent healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. Such system shall be based on nationally recognized and recommended standards.

(b) The Department of Public Health shall post annually on the department's Internet web site information collected by the department pursuant to the mandatory reporting system for healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance established under subsection (a) of this section. Such information shall include, but need not be limited to, the following: (1) The number and type of health care associated infections and antimicrobial resistance reported by each health care facility; (2) links to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's health care associated infection data reports and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' quality improvement program Internet web site; and (3) information to assist members of the public in learning about healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance and how to prevent such infections and resistance.

(P.A. 06-142, S. 2, 3; P.A. 10-117, S. 3; P.A. 14-214, S. 2; P.A. 18-168, S. 13.)

History: P.A. 06-142 effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 10-117 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “On or before October 1, 2007”, by substituting “consider” for “within available appropriations, implement” re recommendations of advisory committee, by deleting provision re establishment of standardized measures for data reporting and by providing that mandatory reporting system shall be designed to prevent healthcare associated infections, amended Subsec. (b) by deleting “On or before October 1, 2007” re report submission and “implementing” re plan, by adding “Advisory” re committee and by changing “such implementation” to “such plan implementation” and amended Subsec. (c) by changing report date from October 1, 2008, to May 1, 2011; P.A. 14-214 amended Subsec. (c) by adding provision re information to be included in report and added Subsec. (d) re posting information on Internet web site; P.A. 18-168 substantially amended section including by amending Subsec. (a) to delete provision re recommendations of advisory committee, add references to antimicrobial resistance and add provision re system to be based on nationally recognized standards, amending Subsec. (b) to delete provision re submitting report, deleting Subsec. (c) and (d) designators and further amending Subsec. (b) to add provisions re information to be posted on department's Internet web site, and making technical and conforming changes.