ND - unsure. OR - The State Health Division will be responsible for developing a plan to meet the requirement of the Dole amendment to implement the Center for Disease Control Guidelines. PA - Have already directed individual nutflag education programs to comply with CDC guidelines. However, it is part of our discussions. TN - Statewide Health Providers Committee has met for 9 months.
Committee consists of state medical director and representatives from nursing, medicine, dentistry.
VA - Dept. of Health is doing at this time. Wis. These have been reviewed by the Board. OH - Input to developing legislation. OR - Not yet, we anticipate we will be doing so in near future. The Health Dept. would like to work with us to develop a position statement like they did for physicians.