reglab/statecodes huggingface dataset:
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 12 - DIAGNOSIS AND INVESTIGATION OF HEALTH PROBLEMS AND HAZARDS › Section 8:52-12.4 - Technical capacities

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(a) Each local health
				agency shall ensure access to public health laboratory analyses in order to support
				disease control and environmental health activities within its jurisdiction.
1. Designated laboratories shall meet all State
				and Federal requirements for technical competency and safety in accordance with the
				Federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment of 1988, Final Rule at 42 C.F.R.
				493, and Clinical Laboratory Services, N.J.A.C. 8:44 and 8:45.
2. Designated laboratories shall be licensed by
				the Department pursuant to the provisions of P.L. 1975, c.166,
				45:9-42.2 6 et seq. and regularly
				participate in quality assurance programs offered through the Department.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 13 - PREVENTIVE PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE › Section 8:52-13.1 - Scope and purpose

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This subchapter addresses the accessibility of the personal
				  health care system to socially disadvantaged individuals. Culturally and
				  linguistically appropriate materials and staff shall be accessible to assure linkage
				  to services for special populations. This subchapter also addresses continuous care
				  management, transportation services, and technical assistance and health information
				  for high risk groups as well as occupational health programs.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 13 - PREVENTIVE PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE › Section 8:52-13.2 - Assure personal and clinical preventive health care

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(a) Each local health
				agency, through the Community Health Improvement Plan, shall:
1. Assess the barriers to personal health care and
				public health services within its jurisdiction;
2. Define a minimum set of clinical preventive
				health services, including disease prevention and health promotion, which shall be
				directed to specific populations. These services shall include, but not be limited
				to:
i. Health care and epidemiological follow-up
				for individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus or suffering from
				acquired immune deficiency syndrome;
ii.
				Health care and epidemiological follow-up for individuals having sexually
				transmitted disease;
iii. Health care
				and epidemiological follow-up for individuals having tuberculosis; and
iv. Adult and childhood immunizations;
3. Develop a plan that provides primary
				health care services to populations that do not have access to the health care
				system;
4. Participate in the
				development of a plan for the early detection of chronic and life threatening
				diseases in the most vulnerable populations;
5. Assist the local public health system in
				facilitating access and entry for populations having barriers to personal health
				care; and
6. Assist the local public
				health system in assuring personal health care services and clinical preventive
				health services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 13 - PREVENTIVE PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE › Section 8:52-13.3 - Community outreach for public health services

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(a) Each local health
				agency shall engage in community outreach activities that:
1. Assure the maximum participation of eligible
				residents in State-and Federally-funded health care programs, including, but not
				limited to, New Jersey FamilyCare and Medicaid;
2. Assure culturally and linguistically
				appropriate resources and health informational materials for specific populations as
				specified in this chapter;
3. Assure
				technical assistance to employers who conduct health promotion, disease prevention,
				or injury prevention programs;
4. Assure
				that there is an active referral system between the mental and/or behavioral health
				delivery system and the personal health care delivery system; and
5. Assure that social services are coordinated
				with health care services.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 13 - PREVENTIVE PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE › Section 8:52-13.4 - Information systems for personal health and related services

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Each local health agency shall assist the local public health
				  system and the State in developing capacities for information systems that share
				  client information with managed care organizations, hospitals, and other health care
				  providers.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 14 - ENFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS › Section 8:52-14.1 - Scope and purpose

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This subchapter addresses the enforcement of the State Sanitary
				  Code (N.J.A.C. 8:21, 8:22, 8:23, 8:23A, 8:24, 8:25, 8:26, 8:27, 8:51, 8:57-1 through
				  4, 10:122, 5:17 and 7:9A, and
				  24:14A-1 et seq., 26:3-69.1 and
				  58:11-23); the protection of food and potable water supplies; environmental health
				  activities related to air, water, noise, and public health nuisances and health
				  hazards, preventable injuries, and exposure-related diseases in both the workplace
				  and community settings.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 14 - ENFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS › Section 8:52-14.2 - Public health laws and rules

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(a) Each local board of
				health shall ensure the enforcement of the provisions of the State Sanitary
				Code.
(b) Each local board of health and
				each local health agency shall maintain and be knowledgeable regarding current
				public health laws, regulations, codes, and ordinances and shall ensure enforcement
				thereof.
(c) Each local health agency
				shall employ licensed personnel consistent with the provisions set forth at
				26:3-19 to enforce State and local
				public health laws, regulations, codes, and ordinances and shall:
1. Maintain written procedures for enforcement
				actions;
2. Collect evidence of
				non-compliance; and
3. Maintain
				documentation of all legal proceedings.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 15 - HEALTH RELATED RESEARCH › Section 8:52-15.1 - Scope and purpose

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This subchapter addresses the continuous linkage between the
				  practice of public health with academic and research institutions; the capacity to
				  perform timely epidemiological and economic analyses; the ability to conduct public
				  health and health practice research; and the appropriate use of research findings.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 15 - HEALTH RELATED RESEARCH › Section 8:52-15.2 - Capacity to initiate timely epidemiological, economic, and health services research

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(a) Each local health
				agency shall assure its capacity to conduct:
1.
				Studies of epidemiological data of identified health problems;
2. Analyses of the economic components of public
				health issues;
3. Analyses of health
				services management; and
4. Analyses of
				the effectiveness of public health practices, programs, and services.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 15 - HEALTH RELATED RESEARCH › Section 8:52-15.3 - Operational implementation of research findings

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(a) Each local health
				agency shall assist the local public health system in identifying new public health
				problems and in developing solutions for new and existing problems.
(b) Each local health agency, in coordination with
				the Office of Local Health, shall ensure the implementation, on a priority basis, of
				newly developed and innovative strategies, methodologies, programs, and projects
				which have been demonstrated to be effective in improving the public
				health.
(c) All research findings shall
				be implemented in accordance with the Community Health Improvement Plan.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 15 - HEALTH RELATED RESEARCH › Section 8:52-15.4 - Linkage with institutions of higher education

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(a) Each local health
				agency is encouraged to provide the opportunity for joint appointments for its staff
				to institutions of higher education.
(b)
				Each local health agency is encouraged to provide field training or work-study
				experiences for students enrolled in institutions of higher education.
(c) Each local health agency is encouraged to
				partner with an institution of higher education to conduct health-related research.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 16 - EVALUATION › Section 8:52-16.1 - Scope and purpose

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This subchapter addresses the evaluation of the effectiveness,
				  accessibility, and quality of population-based health services; the development of
				  objectives and measurements and the collection and analysis of data and information
				  which are used to compare performance with agreed upon standards; the determination
				  of the success or failure of any program activity; and recommendations for the
				  improvement or the termination of any activity or program.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY › Subchapter 16 - EVALUATION › Section 8:52-16.2 - Evaluation and performance

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(a) The Office of Local
				Health shall develop a data collection method which shall benchmark adherence to
				standards of performance for local boards of health and local health agencies. This
				benchmark shall be consistent with the provisions set forth in this chapter and
				shall use a continuous quality improvement process to improve the performance of
				local boards of health and local health agencies.
(b) As part of the benchmarking process, the
				Office of Local Health shall develop a standard format for Local Health Evaluation
				Reports. This report is a tool which shall be used to evaluate and measure local
				boards of health and local health agencies adherence to standards of
				performance.
(c) The Local Health
				Evaluation Report shall be used by each local health agency to:
1. Evaluate annual performance;
2. Provide information and data to improve future
				performance;
3. Report performance and
				evaluation data and information to the local boards of health within its
				jurisdictions; and
4. Foster other
				purposes determined appropriate by the local health agency and/or the Office of
				Local Health.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:53-1.1 - Scope

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This chapter applies to all telemedicine or telehealth
				  organizations providing services in the State.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:53-1.2 - Purpose

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The purpose of this chapter is to implement the requirements of
				  N.J.S.A.
				  45:1-61et seq., by establishing registration
				  provisions for telemedicine or telehealth organizations seeking to provide services
				  in New Jersey.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:53-1.3 - Definitions

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(a) The following words
				and terms are defined at
				N.J.S.A.
				45:1-61 and are used in this chapter as defined
				therein:
"Distant site";
"Originating site";
"Telehealth";
"Telemedicine"; and
"Telemedicine or telehealth organization".
(b) The following words and terms, when used in
				this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
				indicates otherwise:
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Doing business as" or "DBA" means the name under which a
				  telemedicine or telehealth organization operates its business, if it differs from
				  its legal name filed with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services in the New
				  Jersey Department of the Treasury.
"Entity representative" means any individual or individuals duly
				  authorized by the telehealth or telemedicine business organization to act on its
				  behalf.
"Program" means the Department of Health's Certificate of Need and
				  Healthcare Facility Licensure Program, PO Box 358, Trenton, NJ 08625-0358,
				  telephone: (609) 292-8773, telefacsimile: (609) 292-3780.
"Registrant" means a telemedicine or telehealth organization that
				  has submitted a completed telemedicine and telehealth organization application,
				  which is approved by the Program in accordance with this chapter.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 2 - ORGANIZATION REGISTRATION › Section 8:53-2.1 - Telemedicine or telehealth organization registration

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(a) A telemedicine or telehealth organization,
				whether operating as a distant site, originating site, or both, shall register with
				the Department prior to providing services in the State.
(b) The Department shall issue a registration for
				a telemedicine or telehealth organization provided that the:
1. Telemedicine or telehealth organization fully
				and accurately completes the registration application which is on the
				telehealth/telemedicine (TH) application portal at the Department's licensing
				website at
https://dohlicensing.nj.gov/
. The
				required fields on the registration application are as follows:
i. Name of the telemedicine/telehealth
				organization;
ii. EIN (Employer/Tax ID)
				of the telemedicine/telehealth organization;
iii. Address of the telemedicine/telehealth
				organization;
iv. Doing business as
				(DBA), if any, for the telemedicine/telehealth organization;
v. Full name, title, address, email address, and
				telephone number of a contact person for the telemedicine/telehealth organization;
				and
vi. Name, address, email address,
				and telephone number of a registered agent, if the telemedicine/telehealth
				organization is located outside of New Jersey;
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 2 - ORGANIZATION REGISTRATION › Section 8:53-2.2 - Registration renewal

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(a) A registration,
				unless previously suspended or revoked, shall be renewed annually on the original
				licensure date.
1. The Program shall notify each
				registrant at least 30 days prior to the expiration of the registration.
2. A telemedicine or telehealth organization shall
				renew their registration prior to the registration's expiration.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 2 - ORGANIZATION REGISTRATION › Section 8:53-2.3 - Requirement to update information

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(a) If any of the
				information provided by the registrant on the initial or renewal application
				changes, then the registrant must file an Adopted application documenting the
				changes within five business days of the change in information.
1. To report the updated information, the
				registrant must do so electronically at the telehealth/telemedicine (TH) application
				portal on the Department's licensing website at
https://dohlicensing.nj.gov/
to
				provide the updated information.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 3 - ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS › Section 8:53-3.1 - Suspension, revocation, denial of a registration or renewal, and monetary penalty

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(a) The Department may
				impose a monetary penalty and/or suspend or revoke or refuse to issue or renew a
				registration of a telemedicine or telehealth organization if the registrant fails to
				comply with the requirements of this chapter,
				N.J.S.A.
				45:1-61et seq., any other applicable rules or
				statutes, or if the Department determines that the organization poses a threat to
				the public health, safety, or welfare.
1. Notice
				of the suspension, revocation, monetary penalty, denial of registration, or
				registration renewal and the reason for the action taken shall be afforded to the
				telemedicine or telehealth organization.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 53 - REGISTRATION STANDARDS FOR TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH ORGANIZATIONS › Subchapter 3 - ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS › Section 8:53-3.2 - Hearings on enforcement actions

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(a) When a
				telehealth or telemedicine organization's registration is summarily suspended, the
				organization maintains the right to petition the Commissioner of the Department for
				emergency relief.
1. To request emergency relief,
				the telehealth or telemedicine organization must, within 15 business days from the
				date of the notice of summary suspension, submit to the Department a request in
				writing accompanied by a response to the notice of summary suspension.
i. Failure to submit written notice, pursuant to
				this paragraph within 15 business days from the date of the notice of summary,
				suspension shall result in the telehealth or telemedicine organization forfeiting
				all rights to emergency relief.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:56-1.1 - Purpose and scope

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(a) The purpose of this chapter is to:
1. Implement
				26:2H-12.3 9 through 12.45
				(P.L.
				2007, c. 196), the Health
				Care Facility-Associated Infection Reporting and Prevention Act and
				26:2H-5.1e (P.L. 2009,
				c. 263);
2.
				Set forth standards for maintaining the confidentiality of CDC HAI data required for
				reporting;
3. Identify the HAI data
				required for reporting; and
4. Designate
				the system for uniform reporting of HAI data.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:56-1.3 - Enforcement

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The Department may impose enforcement remedies against any health
				  care facility that fails to comply with the requirements set forth in the Act and
				  this chapter in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:43E.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 2 - REPORTING › Section 8:56-2.1 - Designation of reporting system for CDC HAI data

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(a) The Department
				designates the NHSN as the internet-based surveillance system to which each health
				care facility shall report CDC HAI data as set forth at
				N.J.A.C.
				8:56-2.6(a).
1. Information about the NHSN is available through
				the following methods:
i. Electronically at the
				CDC's website entitled National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) at
http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/
;
ii. By telephone to the NHSN number at (800)
				232-4636, option 2; or
iii. By email to
				the NHSN email address at mailto:nhsn@cdc.gov.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 2 - REPORTING › Section 8:56-2.2 - Confidentiality regarding CDC HAI data

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(a) A general hospital
				shall authorize the Department to access CDC HAI data from the NHSN that contains
				patient identifying information.
(b) An
				ambulatory surgery facility shall authorize the Department to access CDC HAI data
				from the NHSN that contains patient identifying information.
(c) The HAI data that the Department retrieves
				from the NHSN on each health care facility shall not be considered "government
				records" subject to public access or inspection pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				47:1A-1 et seq.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 2 - REPORTING › Section 8:56-2.3 - Enrollment and training requirements for the NHSN

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(a) Each health care
				facility shall comply with all NHSN requirements that are necessary to maintain
				enrollment in the NHSN.
(b) Each health
				care facility shall enroll in the NHSN as a separately licensed New Jersey
				facility.
(c) Each administrator shall:
1. Complete the NHSN facility enrollment process
				in accordance with the enrollment instructions applicable to the facility type at
http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/enrollment/index.html
;
2. Adhere to the NHSN administrator training
				requirements at
http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/training/index.html
,
				incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented;
3. Designate authorized users for the health care
				facility; and
4. Join the NHSN user group
				that allows the Department to access HAI data that the health care facility submits
				to the NHSN to comply with the Act and this chapter, and in accordance with:
i. The confidentiality requirements set forth at
				8:56-2.2; and
ii. The Department's identification of the
				appropriate user group through posting to the Department's website at
http://www.state.nj.us/health/healthcarequality/index.shtml
and written notification to administrators.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 2 - REPORTING › Section 8:56-2.4 - Process for data collection and reporting of CDC HAI data

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(a) Each administrator
				and/or authorized user shall identify HAI in accordance with the methodology and
				protocols established by the CDC in the NHSN Manual.
(b) Each administrator and/or authorized user
				shall:
1. Adhere to the NHSN data collection and
				reporting requirements that are applicable to each facility type, which are on the
				NHSN website at
http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/index.html
;
				and
2. Submit NHSN mandatory data
				elements, as required for each major site category pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				8:56-2.6(a), in accordance with
				the reporting protocol in the NHSN Manual.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 2 - REPORTING › Section 8:56-2.5 - Process for data collection and reporting of CMS HAI data

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Each health care facility shall submit quality performance
				  measurement data as specified at
				  8:56-2.6.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 2 - REPORTING › Section 8:56-2.6 - HAI data required to be reported and access to HAI data

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(a) Each health care
				facility shall report CDC HAI data, as stated in the Department's notification,
				described in (c) below, that the Commissioner, in consultation with the QIAC,
				selects from the CDC identified major site categories established in the NHSN
				Manual.
(b) Each health care facility
				shall report CMS HAI data, as stated in the Department's notification, described at
				(c) below, that the Commissioner, in consultation with the QIAC, selects from the
				list of process quality measures in the applicable specifications manual for
				reporting national quality measures that the CMS establishes for each facility type,
				incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, which are available
				electronically at
www.qualitynet.org
.
(c) The Department shall provide written
				notification to each health care facility's chief executive officer and
				administrator:
1. Stating the major site categories
				for which each health care facility is required to report CDC HAI data, pursuant to
				(a) above, by August 1st annually for the following year; and
2. Stating the process quality measures for which
				each health care facility is required to report CMS HAI data, pursuant to (b) above,
				by December 15th annually for the following year.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 2 - REPORTING › Section 8:56-2.7 - Data accuracy and retention

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(a) Each health care
				facility shall retain, for a period of three years, all NHSN worksheets, test
				results, and records that each administrator and/or authorized user uses to submit
				CDC HAI data to NHSN.
1. Each administrator and/or
				authorized user shall retain and preserve the medical records that they use to
				submit CDC HAI data to the NHSN , in accordance with
				N.J.S.A.
				26:8-5.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 56 - HEALTH CARE FACILITY INFECTION REPORTING › Subchapter 3 - UTILIZATION OF REPORTED DATA › Section 8:56-3.1 - Department use of reported data

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(a) The Department shall
				use procedures to allow appropriate comparison of the quality of care related to HAI
				across health care facilities that include, but are not limited to:
1. Consideration of the number of device days to
				calculate device-associated infection ratios;
2. Grouping of surgery infections by specific
				surgery; and/or
3. Consideration of
				other patient, procedure, or health care facility characteristics that the CDC
				identifies.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.1 - Purpose and scope

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(a) The rules are
				designed to promote the identification and reporting of specified communicable
				diseases so that public health officials can take appropriate action to prevent the
				further spread of those diseases to other persons and thereby preserve, maintain, or
				improve the public health.
(b) This
				subchapter establishes requirements for:
1.
				Reporting of communicable diseases by physicians, physician assistants, advanced
				practice nurses, health officers, veterinarians, certified animal control officers,
				managers of animal facilities, and administrators of health care facilities,
				correctional facilities, youth camps, child care centers, preschools, schools and
				institutions of higher education;
2.
				Reporting of laboratory tests indicative of communicable diseases by clinical
				laboratory directors; and
3. Specimen
				submission of isolates of communicable disease organisms by clinical laboratory
				directors.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.2 - Incorporated documents

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(a) The Department
				incorporates by reference in this subchapter the Electronic Laboratory Reporting
				Technical Manual, written and published by the New Jersey Department of Health and
				Senior Services, Communicable Disease Service and the Office of Information
				Technology Services, which provides technical guidance on the electronic
				transmission of data to the Department.
1. The
				Electronic Laboratory Reporting Technical Manual is available at subchapter Appendix
				A and by written request to the Communicable Disease Service, New Jersey Department
				of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625, or online through the
				Department's web page at
http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/izdphome.htm
.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.4 - Health care provider and administrator reporting of reportable communicable diseases

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(a) Every health care
				provider and administrator shall report any person who is ill or infected with any
				disease listed in
				8:57-1.5 within the required timeframe,
				and shall make a report as set forth in
				8:57-1.6.
(b) Duplicate reporting of the same case by health
				care providers and administrators is not necessary.
(c) Health care providers and administrators may
				delegate these reporting requirements to a member of the staff, but this delegation
				does not relieve the health care provider or administrator of the ultimate reporting
				responsibility.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.5 - Reportable communicable diseases

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(a) Health care
				providers and administrators shall immediately report by telephone as set forth at
				8:57-1.6 confirmed and suspected cases
				of the following reportable communicable diseases:
1. List of immediately reportable diseases
Anthrax
				  (
Bacillus
anthracis
);
Botulism
				  (
Clostridium
botulinum
);
Brucellosis
				  (
Brucella
spp.
);
Diphtheria (
Corynebacterium
diphthteriae);
Foodborne intoxications, including, but not limited to, ciguatera,
				  paralytic shellfish poisoning, scombroid, or mushroom poisoning;
Haemophilus
influenzae
,
				  invasive disease;
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome;
Hepatitis A, acute;
Influenza, novel strains only;
Measles (
Rubeola
virus);
Meningococcal invasive disease
				  (
Neisseria
meningitidis
);
Outbreak or suspected outbreak of illness, including, but not
				  limited to, foodborne, waterborne or nosocomial disease or a suspected act of
				  bioterrorism;
Pertussis,
				  (
Bordetella
pertussis
);
Rabies (human illness);
SARS-CoV Disease (SARS);
Smallpox;
Tularemia
				  (
Francisella
tularensis
); and
Viral hemorrhagic fevers, including, but not limited to, Ebola,
				  Lassa, and Marburg viruses.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.6 - Method of reporting and content of report

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(a) Health care
				providers and administrators shall immediately report by telephone the information
				set forth at (c) and (d) below on confirmed and suspected cases of immediately
				reportable communicable diseases set forth in
				8:57-1.5(a)  to the
				health officer of the jurisdiction where the ill or infected person lives, or if
				unknown, wherein the diagnosis is made, except that health care providers and
				administrators shall report ill or infected persons in State-owned institutions,
				such as State correctional facilities, directly to the Department.
1. If the health officer is unavailable, the
				health care provider or administrator shall make the report to the Department by
				telephone to 609-588-7500, between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. on non-holiday weekdays
				or to 609-392-2020 during all other days and hours.
2. Health care providers and administrators may
				use the Directory of Local Health Departments in New Jersey to locate health
				officers and local health departments in New Jersey.
i. The Directory of Local Health Departments in
				New Jersey is written and published by the New Jersey Department of Health and
				Senior Services, Office of Public Health Infrastructure and is available by written
				request to the Office of Public Health Infrastructure, New Jersey Department of
				Health and Senior Services, PO Box 360, Trenton, NJ 08625-0360 or online through the
				Department's web page at
http://www.state.nj.us/health/lh/lhdirectory.pdf
.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.7 - Reporting of positive laboratory results denoting diseases

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(a) A clinical
				laboratory director shall immediately report by telephone the information set forth
				at (c) below on any positive culture, test or assay result specific for the
				following organisms to the local health officer of the jurisdiction where the person
				lives, or if unknown, to the local health officer in whose jurisdiction the health
				care provider or health care facility requesting the laboratory examination is
				located:
Arboviruses;
Bacillus anthracis;
Bordetella pertussis;
Brucella spp.;
Clostridium botulinum;
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
;
Ebola virus;
Foodborne intoxications, including, but not limited to, ciguatera,
				  paralytic shellfish poisoning, scombroid, or mushroom poisoning;
Francisella tularensis
;
Haemophilus influenzae
isolated from
				  cerebrospinal fluid, blood, or any other normally sterile body site;
Hantavirus;
Hepatitis A, (IgM tests only);
Influenza virus, novel strains only;
Lassa virus;
Marburg virus;
Neisseria meningitidis
isolated from
				  cerebrospinal fluid, blood, or any other normally sterile site;
Polio virus;
Rabies virus;
Rubella virus;
SARS-CoV; and
Yersinia pestis
.
1. If the health officer is unavailable, the
				clinical laboratory director shall make the report to the Department by telephone to
				609-588-7500, between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. on non-holiday weekdays or to
				609-392-2020 during all other days and hours.
2. In addition to the telephone report, the
				clinical laboratory director shall report the information set forth at (c) below by
				electronic reporting, by electronic laboratory reporting or by mail within 72 hours
				of obtaining the result.
i. The clinical laboratory
				director may use the Directory of Local Health Departments in New Jersey to locate
				health officers and local health departments in New Jersey.
3. Effective September 1, 2010, in addition to the
				telephone report, the clinical laboratory director shall report the information set
				forth at (c) below through electronic laboratory reporting within 24 hours of
				obtaining the result.
i. The clinical laboratory
				director may substitute electronic reporting if electronic laboratory reporting is
				not available.
ii. The clinical
				laboratory director may substitute reporting by mail upon approval of the Department
				for equipment failure or other circumstances, which prevent electronic
				communications with the Department.
iii.
				Clinical laboratory directors shall utilize the Electronic Laboratory Reporting
				Technical Manual available at subchapter Appendix A to establish electronic
				laboratory reporting.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.8 - Reporting of zoonotic diseases and any disease outbreaks in domestic companion animals by veterinarians, certified animal control officers, and animal facility management

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(a) A veterinarian,
				certified animal control officer or manager of an animal facility shall report any
				case of a domestic companion animal that is ill or infected with the following
				zoonotic diseases, as set forth in (d) and (e) below:
Anthrax (
Bacillus anthracis
);
Avian Chlamydiosis (
Chlamydophila
				  psittaci
);
Brucella canis;
Campylobacteriosis (
Campylobacter
spp.);
Escherichia coli
shiga toxin producing strains
				  (STEC) only;
Leishmaniasis;
Leptospirosis;
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis;
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
;
Plague (
Yersinia pestis
);
Q Fever (
Coxiella burnetti
);
Salmonellosis (
Salmonella
spp.); and
Tularemia (
Francisella tularensis
).
(b) A veterinarian, certified animal control
				officer or manager of an animal facility shall report an animal affected with rabies
				or suspected of being affected with rabies in the manner set forth at
				8:23-1.2.
(c) A veterinarian, certified animal control
				officer, or manager of an animal facility shall report any outbreak or suspected
				outbreak occurring in domestic companion animals as set forth in (d) and (e)
				below.
(d) A veterinarian, certified
				animal control officer, or animal facility manager providing care for any domestic
				companion animal, which is ill or infected with any disease listed in (a) above or
				any outbreak as stated in (c) above, shall within 24 hours of diagnosis or the next
				working day after diagnosis make a report via mail, telephone, telefacsimile, or
				electronic reporting as set forth in (e) below to the health officer having
				jurisdiction over the locality in which the animal or animal facility is located.
1. If the health officer is unavailable, the
				veterinarian, certified animal control officer, or animal facility manager shall
				make the report to the Department by telephone to 609-588-3121, between 8:00 A.M.
				and 5:00 P.M. on non-holiday weekdays.
2. Veterinarians, certified animal control
				officers, and animal facility managers may use the Directory of Local Health
				Departments in New Jersey to locate health officers and local health departments in
				New Jersey.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.9 - Reporting of diseases by health officers

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(a) A health officer who
				is notified of the existence of any disease or illness listed in
				8:57-1.5(a)  or
				laboratory report listed in
				8:57-1.7(a)  shall
				immediately notify the Department by telephone to 609-588-7500, between 8:00 A.M.
				and 5:00 P.M. on non-holiday weekdays or to 609-392-2020 during all other days and
				hours.
(b) A health officer who is
				notified of the existence of any disease or illness listed in
				8:57-1.5 or laboratory report listed in
				8:57-1.7 shall, within 24 hours of
				receipt of the report, forward the information to the Department via electronic
				reporting.
1. If the initial report is incomplete,
				the health officer shall seek complete information and shall provide all available
				information to the Department within five working days of receiving the initial
				report.
2. The health officer may
				substitute reporting by mail upon approval of the Department for equipment failure
				or other circumstances, which prevent electronic communications with the
				Department.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.10 - Health officer investigations

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(a) A health officer,
				upon receiving a report of a reportable communicable disease or outbreak, shall
				investigate the facts contained in the report.
1.
				The health officer may use the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 18th
				Edition, which provides guidelines for the characteristics and control of
				communicable diseases.
i. The Control of
				Communicable Disease Manual, 18th Edition, edited by David L. Heymann, M.D., is
				available from the American Public Health Association, 800 I Street NW, Washington,
				DC, 20001, telephone (202) 777-2742.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.11 - Isolation and quarantine for communicable disease

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(a) A health officer or
				the Department, upon receiving a report of a communicable disease, shall, by written
				order, establish such isolation or quarantine measures as medically and
				epidemiologically necessary to prevent or control the spread of the disease.
1. If, in the medical and epidemiologic judgment
				of the health officer or the Department, it is necessary to hospitalize the ill
				person in order to provide adequate isolation, a health officer or the Department
				shall promptly remove, or cause to be removed, that person to a hospital.
2. Such order shall remain in force until
				terminated by the health officer or the Department.
3. A health officer may use Quarantine and
				Isolation - Model Rules for Local Boards of Health, available at subchapter Appendix
				B, as a guide for establishing isolation and quarantine measures.
i. Quarantine and Isolation - Model Rules for
				Local Boards of Health, is written and published by the Communicable Disease
				Service, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, and is available at
				subchapter Appendix B, and by written request to the Communicable Disease Service,
				New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ
				08625-0369, or online through the Department's web page at
http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/index.html
;
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.12 - Medical examination and specimen submission

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(a) The Department or a
				health officer may order a person who is suspected of being ill or infected with a
				reportable communicable disease, or who has been exposed to a reportable
				communicable disease, to submit to a physical examination, X-ray studies, laboratory
				studies, and such other diagnostic procedures as deemed necessary to determine
				whether or not such person is communicable to others or is a carrier of
				disease.
(b) Any person who the
				Department or health officer orders to submit to an examination and/or to submit
				specimens under (a) above shall comply with the order.
(c) The Department or health officer shall submit
				specimens obtained under the authority of this subchapter and under the provisions
				of this section to a laboratory, which is approved by the Department for the
				examination of such specimens.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.13 - Foodhandlers ill or infected with communicable diseases

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(a) The Department or a
				health officer may prohibit a person who is ill or infected with a communicable
				disease, which may be transmitted through food from working with food as set forth
				at 8:24-2.2.
(b) The Department or a health officer may
				prohibit a person who resides in, boards at, lodges in, or visits a household where
				that person may have come in contact with any person who is ill or infected with a
				communicable disease, which may be transmitted through food from working with food
				as set forth at 8:24-2.2.
(c) The Department or a health officer may require
				a person who is employed in any establishment where food is manufactured, processed,
				stored, prepared, or served for public consumption and who is suspected of being ill
				or infected with a communicable disease, which may be transmitted through food to
				submit to a physical examination and/or submit specimens of blood, bodily
				discharges, or other specimens for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the
				person is ill or infected with a communicable disease.
(d) The Department or a health officer may
				prohibit the sale or distribution of food which:
1.
				A person who is ill or infected with a communicable disease, which may be
				transmitted through food has prepared; or
2. Is considered to be a possible vehicle for
				spread of disease.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.14 - Confidentiality

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(a) The reports made
				pursuant to this subchapter shall be used only by the local health department, the
				Department, and such other agencies as may be designated by the Commissioner to
				carry out mandated duties, including the duty to control and suppress communicable
				infectious diseases.
(b) Information the
				Department shares with the Secretary of Agriculture involving an overlap agent or
				toxin that causes or has the potential to cause a public health emergency where the
				Commissioner suspects or detects conditions that could potentially affect animals,
				plants or crops under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture pursuant to
				the provisions of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes shall be held confidential, in
				accordance with N.J.S.A. 26:13-3d.
(c)
				The reports submitted to the Department pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:57-1, except for the
				reports submitted pursuant to
				8:57-1.8, contain demographic and
				medical information related to the Department's investigations and epidemiological
				studies of communicable diseases and shall not be considered "government records"
				subject to public access or inspection within the meaning of
				47:1A-1 et seq. and shall be deemed:
1. "Information relating to medical... history,
				diagnosis, treatment, or evaluation" within the meaning of Executive Order 26,
				§4(b)1 (McGreevey, August 13, 2002);
2. "Records concerning morbidity, mortality and
				reportable diseases of named persons required to be made, maintained or kept by any
				State or local governmental agency" within the meaning of Executive Order 9,
				§2(c) (Hughes, September 30, 1963); and/or
3. Information "for use in the field of forensic
				pathology or for use in medical or scientific education or research" pursuant to
				47:1A-1.1.