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MO Rev Stat § 192.067 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.067 - Patients' medical records, department may receive information from — purpose — confidentiality — immunity for persons releasing records, exception — reimbursement of costs of abstracting data — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 2019, 2 histories   192.067. Patients' medical records, department may receive information from — purpose — confidentiality — immunity for persons releasing records, exception — reimbursement of costs of abstracting data — penalty. — 1. The department of health and senior services, for purposes of conducting epidemiological studies to be used in promoting and safeguarding the health of the citizens of Missouri under the authority of this chapter is authorized to receive information from patient medical records. The provisions of this section shall also apply to the collection, analysis, and disclosure of nosocomial infection data from patient records collected pursuant to section 192.667 and to the collection of data under section 192.990.  2. The department shall maintain the confidentiality of all medical record information abstracted by or reported to the department. Medical information secured pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 of this section may be released by the department only in a statistical aggregate form that precludes and prevents the identification of patient, physician, or medical facility except that medical information may be shared with other public health authorities and coinvestigators of a health study if they abide by the same confidentiality restrictions required of the department of health and senior services and except as otherwise authorized by the provisions of sections 192.665 to 192.667, or section 192.990. The department of health and senior services, public health authorities and coinvestigators shall use the information collected only for the purposes provided for in this section, section 192.667, or section 192.990.  3. No individual or organization providing information to the department in accordance with this section shall be deemed to be or be held liable, either civilly or criminally, for divulging confidential information unless such individual organization acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose.  4. The department of health and senior services is authorized to reimburse medical care facilities, within the limits of appropriations made for that purpose, for the costs associated with abstracting data for special studies.  5. Any department of health and senior services employee, public health authority or coinvestigator of a study who knowingly releases information which violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided by law. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1134 § 3, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1279, A.L. 2019 S.B. 514)
MO Rev Stat § 192.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.070 - Care of babies and hygiene of children, educational literature to be issued by department.

Effective - 10 Jul 2001   192.070. Care of babies and hygiene of children, educational literature to be issued by department. — The department of health and senior services shall issue educational literature on the care of the baby and the hygiene of the child including, but not limited to, the importance of routine dental care for children; study the causes of infant mortality and the application of measures for the prevention and suppression of the diseases of infancy and childhood; and inspect the sanitary and hygienic conditions in public school buildings and grounds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9738, A.L. 1945 p. 945 § 18, A.L. 1961 p. 463, A.L. 2001 H.B. 567 merged with S.B. 393)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9018; 1919 § 5775  Effective 7-10-01
MO Rev Stat § 192.072 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.072 - Bureau of immunization to develop educational materials — contents, distribution.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   192.072. Bureau of immunization to develop educational materials — contents, distribution. — 1. The bureau of immunization of the department of health and senior services shall develop educational materials which strongly recommend that infants and young children receive complete immunization vaccines in accordance with current standard medical practice, including, but not limited to, the following vaccine or series of vaccines:  (1) Haemophilus influenza type b conjugate vaccine before the age of two years;  (2) Hepatitis B vaccine in accordance with section 334.157;  (3) A tuberculin skin test.  2. Such educational materials shall be distributed to parents of infants and young children by the department of health and senior services through hospitals and city, county and district health units and by the department of elementary and secondary education through the parent education program established pursuant to sections 178.691 to 178.699. Such educational materials shall conform to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, PL 99-660, and shall include information regarding possible risks and benefits and requirements regarding informed consent associated with childhood vaccines, which shall be provided to parents or legal guardians of the child. ­­-------- (L. 1993 H.B. 522 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 192.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.080 - Bureau of food and drug inspection.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   192.080. Bureau of food and drug inspection. — All powers and duties pertaining to administration of laws relating to food and drugs shall be exercised by the department of health and senior services. The director of health and senior services may appoint a deputy who, under the director, shall be chiefly responsible for administration of laws pertaining to food and drugs, and particularly to enforce all laws that now exist or that may hereafter be enacted regarding the production, manufacture or sale of any food products, or any ingredients that are used in the preparation of foodstuffs, or the misbranding of the same; and personally, or by his assistants, inspect any article of food or drug made or offered for sale in this state which he may, through himself or his assistants, suspect or have reason to believe is impure, unhealthful, adulterated or misbranded, and shall have power to cause to be arrested and prosecuted, any person or persons engaged in the manufacture or sale of foods or drugs or any food ingredients contrary to the laws of this state. The director shall make orders and findings for carrying out the provisions of this chapter and such orders and findings shall conform as nearly as practicable to the orders and findings at present established or which may hereafter be established for the enforcement of the act of congress, approved and known as "The Food and Drug Act", together with any amendments thereto. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §§ 9855, 9856, 9857, A.L. 1945 p. 945 § 22, A. 1949 S.B. 1051)  Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 13003, 13005, 13006; 1919 §§ 5729, 5731, 5732; 1909 §§ 6606, 6608, 6609  CROSS REFERENCE:  Food and drugs, regulation and inspection, Chap. 196
MO Rev Stat § 192.083 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.083 - Office of minority health, established — purpose, duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   192.083. Office of minority health, established — purpose, duties. — There is hereby established in the department of health and senior services an "Office of Minority Health". The office of minority health shall monitor the progress of all programs in the department for their impact on eliminating the health status disparity between minorities and the general population and shall:  (1) Address new issues related to minority health;  (2) Instill cultural sensitivity and awareness into all existing programs of the department of health and senior services;  (3) Develop health education programs specifically for minorities;  (4) Promote constituency development;  (5) Coordinate programs provided by other agencies;  (6) Develop culturally sensitive health education materials;  (7) Seek extramural funding for programs;  (8) Develop resources within communities;  (9) Establish interagency communication to assure that agreements are established and carried out;  (10) Ensure that personnel within the department of health and senior services have cultural understanding and sensitivity;  (11) Ensure that all programs are designed to be responsive to unique needs of minorities;  (12) Provide necessary health and medical information, data, and staff resources to the Missouri minority health issues task force;  (13) Review all programs of the department, their impact on the health status of minorities;  (14) Assist in the design of programs targeted specifically to improving the health of minorities;  (15) Develop programs that can attract other public and private funds;  (16) Analyze federal and state legislation for its impact on the health status of minorities;  (17) Advise the director of the department of health and senior services on health matters that affect minorities;  (18) Coordinate the development of educational programs designed to reduce the incidence of disease in the minority population. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1565 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 192.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.090 - Inspection of hotels, inns and boardinghouses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   192.090. Inspection of hotels, inns and boardinghouses. — The department of health and senior services shall exercise such powers and duties pertaining to inspection of hotels, inns and boardinghouses as is imposed by law and such powers and duties may be delegated by the director of the department of health and senior services to a deputy who may be the deputy of food and drug administration and who, under the director, shall be chiefly responsible for the administration of laws, orders and findings relating to the inspection of hotels, inns and boardinghouses. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 945 § 23, A. 1949 S.B. 1051)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Hotels, motels, resorts and other public lodging, regulations of, Chap. 315
MO Rev Stat § 192.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.100 - Inspection of beverages.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   192.100. Inspection of beverages. — The department of health and senior services shall have the power and duty to administer all laws, orders and findings pertaining to inspection of beverages, except such as are administered by the supervisor of liquor control, and the director of health and senior services shall delegate such administration to the bureau of food and drug inspection. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 945 § 24)
MO Rev Stat § 192.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.110 - Department's duty as to diseases of animals.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   192.110. Department's duty as to diseases of animals. — The department of health and senior services shall take cognizance of any contagious diseases which may be prevalent among domestic animals of the state which diseases may be communicable to human beings; shall ascertain the nature and causes of such diseases; publish the results of its investigations, with suggestions for the proper safeguards and treatment of such animals. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9741, A.L. 1945 p. 945 § 19)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9021; 1919 § 5778; 1909 § 6659
MO Rev Stat § 192.131 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.131 - Definitions — health care-associated infections data to be reported — confidentiality — plan to help monitoring to be developed — required standards.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   192.131. Definitions — health care-associated infections data to be reported — confidentiality — plan to help monitoring to be developed — required standards. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:  (1) "Advisory panel", the infection control advisory panel created by section 197.165;  (2) "Antibiogram", a record of the resistance of microbes to various antibiotics;  (3) "Antimicrobial", the ability of an agent to destroy or prevent the development of pathogenic action of a microorganism;  (4) "Department", the department of health and senior services.  2. Every laboratory performing culture and sensitivity testing on humans in Missouri shall submit data on health care associated infections to the department in accordance with this section. The data to be reported shall be defined by regulation of the department after considering the recommendations of the advisory panel. Such data may include antibiograms and, not later than July 1, 2005, shall include but not be limited to the number of patients or isolates by hospital, ambulatory surgical center, and other facility or practice setting with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE).  3. Information on infections collected pursuant to this section shall be subject to the confidentiality protections of this chapter but shall be available in provider-specific form to appropriate facility and professional licensure authorities.  4. The advisory panel shall develop a recommended plan to use laboratory and health care provider data provided pursuant to this chapter to create a system to:  (1) Enhance the ability of health care providers and the department to track the incidence and distribution of preventable infections, with emphasis on those infections that are most susceptible to interventions and that pose the greatest risk of harm to Missouri residents;  (2) Monitor trends in the development of antibiotic-resistant microbes, including but not limited to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) infections.  5. In implementing this section, the advisory panel and the department shall conform to guidelines and standards adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The advisory panel's plan may provide for demonstration projects to assess the viability of the recommended initiatives. ­­-------- (L. 2004 S.B. 1279)
MO Rev Stat § 192.138 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.138 - Contagious or infectious disease reports by medical treatment facilities and nursing homes.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   192.138. Contagious or infectious disease reports by medical treatment facilities and nursing homes. — Other provisions of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, requirements imposed by state law or regulation that institutions defined under chapters 197 and 198 make notifications concerning patients who are diagnosed as having reportable infectious or contagious diseases shall apply to such institutions provided that such notifications are consistent with federal laws and rules and regulations imposed thereunder governing the confidentiality of records of patients receiving medical assistance under the provisions of federal law. ­­-------- (L. 1988 S.B. 602 § 1, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1279)
MO Rev Stat § 192.139 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.139 - Communicable disease reporting, guidelines for department.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   192.139. Communicable disease reporting, guidelines for department. — The communicable disease reporting requirements established by the department of health and senior services shall be in accordance with guidelines, funding requirements, or recommendations established by the federal Centers for Disease Control. ­­-------- (L. 1988 S.B. 602 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 192.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.140 - Public health nurse provided — public and private places disinfected.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   192.140. Public health nurse provided — public and private places disinfected. — Whenever the department of health and senior services considers it necessary to secure the aid and services of a visiting public health nurse, or to disinfect any building, residence or room in any hotel or dormitory, or other place in such city or county infected with infectious or contagious diseases, such department shall make formal written report of such fact to the county commission or mayor of any city of the second, third, or fourth class, or both such commission and mayor, and therein recommend the course of action necessary and advisable to be taken in relation thereto to prevent the spread of such infectious or contagious diseases; and in case said report is made to the mayor of any city he shall lay the same before the city council at its next meeting, and the said city council and the said county commission at its next meeting after said report has been made as aforesaid, shall consider said report and recommendation and act upon it, and such city council and county commission shall each be authorized to employ, at a fixed monthly compensation, a public health nurse, qualified for such service by registration as such according to the laws of this state, to visit any family, home, boardinghouse, dormitory or club in which is a member or members, a person or persons afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, and upon the consent of such person or family or parent or guardian, if a minor, to assist in nursing said person and to advise such person and the persons or members of the family, boardinghouse, dormitory or club, as to the proper methods to be pursued to prevent the spread of such infectious or contagious disease, and also to authorize some other proper person or persons to visit and disinfect any building, residence, room in any hotel or dormitory or other place therein infected with such infectious or contagious disease upon the consent of the owner thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9756)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9036; 1919 § 5792
MO Rev Stat § 192.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.150 - Interference a misdemeanor — duty of mayor and county commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   192.150. Interference a misdemeanor — duty of mayor and county commission. — When the owner or occupant of any building, residence, room in a hotel or dormitory or other place designated in the report or written statement contemplated by section 192.140, refuses to consent that the same be disinfected by the person designated by the city or county commission, report of that fact shall be made by such person to the mayor, if such person was appointed by the mayor, and to the county commission, if such person was appointed by said commission, and thereupon the mayor or the county commission shall have power and it shall be his or their duty, either by taking of testimony or a personal inspection of the place charged to be infected, to make an examination into the truth of the statements contained in said reports and determine whether said place is infected with an infectious or contagious disease, and if it is found to be so infected it shall be the duty of the mayor or of the county commission, as the case may be, by a written order of the mayor, and by an order spread upon its record if the county commission, to appoint some proper person to disinfect said place, designating in said order the building, residence, room in the hotel or dormitory or other place to be disinfected and said written order of the mayor, or a copy of said order of the county commission, under its seal, shall be furnished to said person and shall be his authority to enter upon said premises and to disinfect the same in a proper manner using such force as may be necessary to accomplish that purpose, proper regard being had for the rights of the owner or occupant of said premises and the beneficent purposes to be accomplished; and any needless interference by the owner or occupant of said premises or by any other person with the person so appointed, in the performance of the duties required of him by said order, shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished in the manner provided by law for interference with an officer in the performance of his duties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9757)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9037; 1919 § 5793
MO Rev Stat § 192.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.160 - Taxpayers may petition for the appointment of a nurse.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   192.160. Taxpayers may petition for the appointment of a nurse. — In case a petition is signed by two hundred and fifty taxpayers and presented to any city council of the second, third or fourth class or any county commission, for the appointment of a public health nurse or nurses or that any place infected with infectious or contagious disease be disinfected, as designated in section 192.140, it shall be the duty of said city council or county commission, as the case may be, to provide for the appointment of said nurse or nurses and for the disinfecting of any infected place and to pay for the same as provided for in section 192.170. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9759)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9039; 1919 § 5795
MO Rev Stat § 192.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.170 - Money appropriated from current revenue.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   192.170. Money appropriated from current revenue. — The county commission or city council in any such city shall have power to appropriate money out of the current revenues of the county or city, as the case may be, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections 192.140 to 192.170. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9758)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9038; 1919 § 5794
MO Rev Stat § 192.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services|Section 192.230 - Department to conduct a survey of hospitals and health facilities — to recommend a state plan.

Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories   192.230. Department to conduct a survey of hospitals and health facilities — to recommend a state plan. — The department of health and senior services shall be empowered and authorized to conduct a complete survey of all of the hospitals, both public and private, and all health centers and units in the state, and to make a public report of such survey and findings, and recommending a state plan for the construction of such additional hospital and health center facilities as may be deemed advisable by the department of health and senior services after consultation with the state board of health and senior services. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 972 § 1, A.L. 2018 S.B. 843)