3.0.0 2525 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z Senate S S 2007-12-19 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-12-19T21:32:27Z 2007-12-19 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2007-12-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ N D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2007-12-19 True Health Administrative procedure Antibiotics Communicable diseases Department of Health and Human Services Drug resistance in microorganisms Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health information systems Hospital care Hospital rates Hospitals Law Medical records Medical screening Medical statistics Medicare Preventive medicine Social Welfare Health 00 2007-12-19 Introduced in Senate 2008-03-10T14:43:26Z MRSA Infection Prevention and Patient Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations that: (1) define "MRSA" (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus); (2) provide a list of best practices for antibiotic resistant staphylococcus; (3) define "high risk hospital departments" for purposes of applying such practices; and (4) provide screening, recordkeeping, and other requirements as they relate to MRSA reductions.

Requires acute care hospitals to screen patients entering intensive care units and other high risk hospital departments. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a process and a timetable for extending the screening requirements to patients admitted to all hospitals by January 1, 2012, subject to a waiver; and (2) report to Congress, by January 1, 2009, on whether payment adjustments should be made under Medicare to assist certain hospitals in defraying the cost of screening for, and the subsequent treatment of, MRSA or similar infections.

Requires all hospitals to: (1) comply with specified MRSA best practices, including contact precautions and patient isolation; and (2) report by January 1, 2009, the number of cases of hospital-acquired MRSA and other resistant infection rates that occur in the facility. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop systems of identifying infected transferred patients and promptly informing any facility that has transferred an infected patient; and (2) promulgate regulations to develop a program to provide technical assistance and educational materials to non-hospital Medicare providers to assist in preventing MRSA infections.

Permits a hospital to apply to the Secretary for a one-year increase in the amount of the capital-related costs payment made to the hospital under the prospective payment system, subject to specified repayment and certification requirements.

]]> MRSA Infection Prevention and Patient Protection Act Display Title MRSA Infection Prevention and Patient Protection Act Short Titles as Introduced MRSA Infection Prevention and Patient Protection Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to prevent health care facility-acquired infections. Introduced in Senate 2007-12-19T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2525is/xml/BILLS-110s2525is.xml 2007-12-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.