STAND. COM. REP. NO.  208

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 889

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 889 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect consumers of hospital services by establishing procedures that require hospitals to collect data and report to the public on infection rates.

 

     Consumers Union supported this bill.  The Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported this measure with amendments.  The Department of Health (DOH) and Kaiser Permanente provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting its contents; and

 

     (2)  Inserting provisions that, among other things, require:

 

          (A)  Each health care facility certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to report on health care-associated infections to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network;

 

          (B)  Each health care facility to authorize DOH to access reported health care-associated infection data; and

 

          (C)  DOH to prepare an annual public report on health care-associated infections beginning in 2013.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 889, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 889, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair