3.0.0 2278 2023-01-11T20:19:27Z 2023-01-11T20:19:27Z Senate S S 2007-10-31 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-10-31T21:57:58Z Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007 110 4214 HR 2007-11-15 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2007-10-31 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13630-13632) IntroReferral 2007-10-31 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13629-13630) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-10-31 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. N O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL 2007-10-31 True S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2007-10-31 True M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2007-11-02 False B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2007-11-07 False C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2007-11-14 False W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2007-12-10 False L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2007-12-17 False Health Administrative procedure Communicable diseases Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Data banks Department of Health and Human Services Government Operations and Politics Health information systems Health surveys Hospital care Hospitals Law Medical research Medical statistics Medicare Preventive medicine Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Health 00 2007-10-31 Introduced in Senate 2008-03-06T20:01:24Z Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007 - Directs the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop best-practices guidelines for internal infection control plans to prevent, detect, control, and treat community and healthcare-associated infections at hospitals.

Requires AHRQ to: (1) establish best practices with supporting justification, including the establishment of an infection control oversight committee; (2) collaborate with other agencies and organizations whose area of expertise is the identification, treatment, and prevention of infectious disease; (3) publish proposed guidelines; (4) provide for a comment period of not less than 90 days; and (5) establish final guidelines.

Directs the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to: (1) consult best practices guidelines in evaluating hospitals' infection control plans as a condition of participation in the Medicare program; and (2) report to Congress on the feasibility of reducing healthcare-associated infection rates through a Quality Improvement Payment Program.

Requires: (1) hospitals to report information about community and healthcare-associated infections to the CDC National Healthcare Safety Network, which shall be used by the CDC to develop a national database of infection rates in hospitals; (2) the Director of the CDC to award grants to states to carry out public awareness campaigns; (3) the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and intensify NIH programs regarding research and related activities concerning such infections; (4) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group on community and healthcare-associated infections; and (5) the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to Congress on this Act's impact.

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