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 Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017)
 Title 12. Health
 Agency 5. Department of Health
 Chapter 90. Regulations for Disease Reporting and Control

  Section 370. Reporting of healthcare-associated infections  

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  • Part XIV. Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections

    A. Reportable infections. Facilities that report data into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program shall share the data, through the NHSN, with the department.

    B. Liability protection and data release. Any person making such report as authorized herein shall be immune from liability as provided by § 32.1-38 of the Code of Virginia. Infection rate data may be released to the public by the department upon request. Data shall be aggregated to ensure that no individual patient may be identified.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 24, Issue 19, eff. July 1, 2008; amended, Virginia Register Volume 27, Issue 13, eff. March 28, 2011; Volume 31, Issue 26, eff. September 25, 2015.

Statutory Authority

§§ 32.1-12 and 32.1-35 of the Code of Virginia.