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NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.27 - Findings, declarations relative to designation of stroke centers.

26:2H-12.27 Findings, declarations relative to designation of stroke centers.  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Despite significant advances in diagnosis, treatment and prevention, stroke remains a common disorder; an estimated 700,000 to 750,000 new and recurrent strokes occur each year in this country; and with the aging of the population, the number of persons who have strokes is projected to increase; b. Although new treatments are available to improve the clinical outcomes of stroke, many acute care hospitals lack the necessary staff and equipment to optimally triage and treat stroke patients, including the provision of optimal, safe and effective emergency care for these patients; c. Two levels of stroke centers should be established for the treatment of acute stroke. Primary stroke centers should be established in as many acute care hospitals as possible. These centers would evaluate, stabilize and provide emergency care to patients with acute stroke and then, depending on the patient's needs and the center's capabilities, either admit the patient and provide inpatient care or transfer the patient to a comprehensive stroke center. Comprehensive stroke centers should be established in hospitals that meet the criteria set forth in this act, to ensure coverage for all patients throughout the State who require this level of care. These centers would provide complete and specialized care to patients who experience the most complex strokes, which require specialized testing, highly technical procedures and other interventions. Also, these centers would provide education and guidance to affiliated primary stroke centers; d. There is a public health need for acute care hospitals in this State to establish stroke centers to ensure the rapid triage, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of patients suffering a stroke. This should result in increased survival and a decrease in the disabilities associated with stroke; and e. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the residents of this State to establish a program to designate stroke centers throughout the State, to provide specific patient care and support services criteria that stroke centers must meet in order to ensure that stroke patients receive safe and effective care, and to provide financial support to acute care hospitals to encourage them to develop stroke centers in all areas of the State. L.2004,c.136,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.31 - Awarding of matching grants to designated stroke centers.

26:2H-12.31 Awarding of matching grants to designated stroke centers.  5. a. In order to encourage and ensure the establishment of stroke centers throughout the State, the Commissioner of Health shall award matching grants to hospitals that seek designation as stroke centers and demonstrate a need for financial assistance to develop the necessary infrastructure, including personnel and equipment, in order to satisfy the criteria for designation provided pursuant to this act. The matching grants shall not exceed $250,000 or 50% of the hospital's cost for developing the necessary infrastructure, whichever is less. b. A hospital seeking designation as a stroke center shall apply to the commissioner for a matching grant, in a manner and on a form required by the commissioner, and provide such information as the commissioner deems necessary to determine if the hospital is eligible for the grant. c. The commissioner may provide matching grants to as many hospitals as the commissioner deems appropriate, except that: (1) Matching grant awards shall be made to at least two applicant hospitals in the northern region of this State (comprising Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Passaic, Morris, Sussex, and Warren counties), at least two applicant hospitals in the central region of this State (comprising Union, Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, and Monmouth counties) and at least two applicant hospitals in the southern region of this State (comprising Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, Atlantic, and Ocean counties), provided in the case of each region that the applicant hospitals receiving the awards must be eligible therefor under the provisions of this act; and (2) No more than 20% of the funds appropriated pursuant to this act shall be allocated to hospitals that seek designation as comprehensive stroke centers. L.2004, c.136, s.5; amended 2012, c.17, s.195.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.32 - Report to Governor, Legislature.

26:2H-12.32 Report to Governor, Legislature.  6. The Commissioner of Health shall, not later than September 1, 2005, prepare and submit to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the General Assembly a report indicating, as of June 30, 2005, the total number of hospitals that shall have applied for grants under section 5 of this act and the number of those applicants that shall have been found to be eligible for such grants, the total number of grants awarded, the name and address of each grantee hospital and the amount of the award to each, and the amount of each award that shall have been paid to the grantee. L.2004, c.136, s.6; amended 2012, c.17, s.196.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.33 - Availability of certain information on departmental website.

26:2H-12.33 Availability of certain information on departmental website.  1. a. The Department of Health shall make available to the public, through its official department website, information regarding: (1) the ownership of each long-term care facility and adult day health services facility licensed by the department; and (2) any violation of statutory standards or rules and regulations of the department pertaining to the care of patients or physical plant standards found at any such facility by the department. As used in this section, "long-term care facility" means a nursing home, assisted living residence, comprehensive personal care home, residential health care facility, or dementia care home licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.). b. The information made available to the public pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be provided in a manner that would enable a member of the public to search the website by name of a facility or its owner in order to access the information. The department shall also make the information available in writing, upon request. c. The information regarding the ownership of a long-term care or adult day health services facility that is made available to the public pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall provide, at a minimum: the name of the owner of a facility as listed on the facility's license and, if there is more than one owner or the facility is owned by a corporation, the name of each person who holds at least a 10 percent interest in the facility; the name of any other licensed long-term care or adult day health services facility in the State owned by this owner, corporation, and each person who holds at least a 10 percent interest in the facility, as applicable; and the address and contact information for the facility. d. The information that is displayed on the official department website pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall include Internet web links to the New Jersey Report Card for Nursing Homes maintained by the department and the Medicare Nursing Home Compare database maintained by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. L.2007, c.65, s.1; amended 2012, c.17, s.197; 2015, c.125, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.34 - Training required for service as trustee of general hospital, conditions.

26:2H-12.34 Training required for service as trustee of general hospital, conditions.  1. a. (1) As a condition of serving as a member of the board of trustees of a general hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et al.), a person shall be required to complete a training program approved by the Commissioner of Health that is designed to clarify the roles and duties of a hospital trustee and is at least one day in length.  (2) The training shall be completed no later than six months after the date that the person is appointed as a member of the board, except that a person who is appointed as a member of a hospital board of trustees on or after the date of enactment of this act but prior to the effective date thereof shall complete the training no later than six months after the effective date.  (3) A person who was appointed as a member of a hospital board of trustees prior to the date of enactment of P.L.2007, c.74 shall complete the training no later than six months after the effective date of P.L.2008, c.57. b. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the New Jersey Hospital Association, the Hospital Alliance of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals: (1) prescribe the subject matter of the training, which shall include, but need not be limited to, a review of the types of financial, organizational, legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that a hospital trustee may be required to consider in the course of discharging the trustee's governance responsibilities; (2) arrange for, or specify, the entity or entities to provide the training; (3) specify the timeframe within which the training is to be completed; (4) certify completion of the training for each trustee upon receipt of documentation thereof, as provided on a form and in a manner prescribed by the commissioner, or otherwise arrange for certification by the training entity; and (5) take such other actions as the commissioner determines appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.2007, c.74, s.1; amended 2008, c.57; 2012, c.17, s.198.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.35 - Findings, declarations relative to prevention of health care facility-acquired infections.

26:2H-12.35 Findings, declarations relative to prevention of health care facility-acquired infections.  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Two million patients in this country become infected after entering hospitals each year and about 90,000 of those patients die as a result of those infections; b. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a common staph infection which is resistant to powerful antibiotics and which is increasingly prevalent in health care settings;  c. MRSA can survive on cloth and plastic for up to 90 days, and is frequently transmitted by contaminated hands, clothes and non-invasive instruments, so that the number of patients who can become infected from even one carrier multiplies dramatically; d. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one in 20 patients entering a hospital carries MRSA, and reported that MRSA accounted for 60% of infections in American hospitals in 2004, up from 2% in 1974;  e. The annual nationwide cost to treat hospitalized patients infected with MRSA is estimated to be more than $4 billion; f. These infections are preventable, and recent data support a multi-faceted approach to successfully combat them, including routine screening, isolation of colonized and infected patients, strict compliance with hygiene guidelines, and a change in culture to ensure that infection prevention and control is everyone's job and is a natural component of care at each patient encounter each day;  g. Virtually all published analyses comparing the costs of screening patients upon admission and adopting effective infection control practices with the costs of caring for infected patients have concluded that caring for infected patients is much more expensive; h. Routine screening and isolation of all patients with MRSA in hospitals in Denmark and Holland have reduced MRSA to 10% of their bacterial infections, and a pilot program undertaken by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pittsburgh Healthcare System that reduced MRSA infections in its surgical care unit by 70% was so successful that all VA health care facilities have been directed to develop and implement similar approaches to prevent the spread of MRSA in at least one unit, with the goal to apply successful strategies facility-wide; and i. It is a matter of public health and fiscal policy that patients in New Jersey's health care facilities receive health care that incorporates these best practices in infection control, not only to protect their health and lives, but also to ensure the economic viability of New Jersey's health care institutions. L.2007,c.120,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.36 - Hospitals required to implement an infection program, reporting of cases of MRSA.

26:2H-12.36 Hospitals required to implement an infection program, reporting of cases of MRSA.  2. a. Within one month after the effective date of this act, all general hospitals licensed by the Department of Health pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et al.) shall implement an infection prevention program in their intensive care unit or units, as applicable, and if the hospital has no intensive care unit, then in another high-risk unit such as a surgical unit, or other unit where there is significant risk of facility-acquired infections. Ultimately, the hospital shall expand the infection prevention program to all areas of the hospital, with the exception of an inpatient psychiatric unit, if applicable. The expansion of the infection prevention program shall be completed as quickly as feasible, taking into account the hospital's patient population, physical plant, and other facility-specific circumstances. b. In addition to any other best practices and effective strategies, the hospital shall incorporate the following strategies: (1) identification and isolation of both colonized and infected patients by screening patients upon admission in order to break the chain of transmission; (2) contact precautions for patients found to be MRSA positive, as "contact precautions" is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;  (3) patient cultures for MRSA upon discharge or transfer from the unit where the infection prevention program has been implemented, and flagging of patients who are readmitted to the hospital; (4) strict adherence to hygiene guidelines;  (5) a written infections prevention and control policy with input from frontline caregivers; and  (6) a worker education requirement regarding modes of transmission of MRSA, use of protective equipment, disinfection policies and procedures, and other preventive measures. c. A general hospital shall report to the Department of Health, in a manner and according to a schedule prescribed by the Commissioner of Health, the number of cases of hospital-acquired MRSA that occur in its facility.  L.2007, c.120, s.2; amended 2012, c.17, s.199.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.37 - Violations, penalties.

26:2H-12.37 Violations, penalties.  3. A general hospital that is in violation of the provisions of this act shall be subject to such penalties as the Commissioner of Health may determine pursuant to sections 13 and 14 of P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-13 and 26:2H-14).  L.2007, c.120, s.3; amended 2012, c.17, s.200.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.38 - Report to the Governor, Legislature.

26:2H-12.38 Report to the Governor, Legislature.  4. To the extent that funds permit, the commissioner shall report within 18 months after the effective date of this act and annually thereafter to the Governor and, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), the Senate and General Assembly standing reference committees on health, on the effect of this act in reducing MRSA infections in hospitals. L.2007,c.120,s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.39 - Short title.

26:2H-12.39 Short title.  1. Sections 1 through 7 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Health Care Facility-Associated Infection Reporting and Prevention Act." L.2007, c.196, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.40 - Findings, declarations relative to reporting of infection rates by hospitals.

26:2H-12.40 Findings, declarations relative to reporting of infection rates by hospitals.  2. The Legislature finds and declares: a. Health care facility-associated infections constitute a major public health problem in this country, affecting from 5% to 10% of hospitalized patients annually, resulting in an estimated two million infections, and 90,000 deaths, and adding an estimated $4.5 to $5.7 billion in health care costs; b. Many health care facility-associated infections can be prevented, and a goal of zero health care facility-associated infections is desirable. There are many simple and effective practices in hospitals that can dramatically reduce the incidence of health care facility-associated infections, such as hand washing, using gloves and properly sterilized equipment, and following the same established best practices, every time, for procedures such as the insertion of an intravenous tube to deliver fluids and medication; c. The uniform reporting of health care facility-associated infections to the State, and the review and analysis of this data by the Department of Health, will provide a measurable means to assist hospitals in improving patient outcomes; d. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that states establishing public reporting systems for health care facility-associated infections focus on major site categories to report rates of health care facility-associated infections related to procedures and conditions including, but not limited to, urinary tract infections, surgical site infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and central line-related bloodstream infections. A focus on major site categories helps ensure that data collection is concentrated in populations where health care facility-associated infections are more prevalent, and that the infection rates reported are most useful for targeting prevention practices and making comparisons among hospitals and within hospitals, over time; e. The Department of Health currently provides comparative hospital performance data in its annual New Jersey Hospital Performance Report, and including information about hospital infection rates will further enhance the value of the report to the public and health care providers; and  f. Therefore, it is a matter of public health and fiscal policy that patients in New Jersey's hospitals receive health care that incorporates best practices in infection control, not only to protect their health and lives, but also to ensure the economic viability of New Jersey's hospitals. L.2007, c.196, s.2; amended 2012, c.17, s.201.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.41 - Quarterly reports by general hospital to Department of Health.

26:2H-12.41 Quarterly reports by general hospital to Department of Health.  3. A general hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et al.) shall be required to report quarterly to the Department of Health, in a form and manner prescribed by the Commissioner of Health: a. process quality indicators of hospital infection control that have been identified by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, as selected by the commissioner in consultation with the Quality Improvement Advisory Committee within the department; and  b. beginning 30 days after the adoption of regulations pursuant to this act, data on infection rates for the major site categories that define health care facility-associated infection locations, multiple infections, and device-related and non-device related infections, identified by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as selected by the commissioner in consultation with the Quality Improvement Advisory Committee within the department.  L.2007, c.196, s.3; amended 2011, c.42, s.1; 2012, c.17, s.202.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.42 - Prompt advice to hospital from commissioner to improve performance.

26:2H-12.42 Prompt advice to hospital from commissioner to improve performance.  4. The commissioner shall promptly advise a hospital in the event the commissioner determines that based on information reported by the facility, a change in facility practices or policy is necessary to improve performance in the prevention of health care facility-associated infection and quality of care provided at the facility. L.2007, c.196, s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.43 - Information available to public on Internet website.

26:2H-12.43 Information available to public on Internet website.  5. The commissioner shall make available to members of the public, on the official Internet website of the Department of Health, the information reported pursuant to this act, in such a format as the commissioner deems appropriate to enable comparison among hospitals, with respect to the information, and shall include information in the New Jersey Hospital Performance Report annually issued by the commissioner that measures the performance of general hospitals in the State with respect to process quality indicators and health care facility-associated infection among patients. L.2007, c.196, s.5; amended 2012, c.17, s.203.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.44 - Expansion of reporting requirements.

26:2H-12.44 Expansion of reporting requirements.  6. The commissioner may, by regulation, expand the health care facility-associated infection reporting requirements in this act to other types of health care facilities, as the commissioner determines appropriate. L.2007, c.196, s.6.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.45 - Rules, regulations.

26:2H-12.45 Rules, regulations.  7. The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, in consultation with the Quality Improvement Advisory Committee in the department, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act. The regulations shall: establish standard methods for identifying and reporting health care facility-associated infections; identify the major site categories for which infections shall be reported, taking into account the categories most likely to improve the delivery and outcome of health care in the State; and specify the methodology for presenting the data to the public, including procedures to adjust for differences in case mix and severity of infections among hospitals.  L.2007, c.196, s.7.