HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PATIENTS AT CERTAIN HEALTH FACILITIES
- Section 439.800 - Definitions
- Section 439.802 - "Facility-acquired infection" defined
- Section 439.803 - "Health facility" defined
- Section 439.805 - "Medical facility" defined
- Section 439.810 - "Patient" defined
- Section 439.815 - "Patient safety officer" defined
- Section 439.820 - "Provider of health care" defined
- Section 439.830 - "Sentinel event" defined
- Section 439.835 - Mandatory reporting of sentinel events
- Section 439.837 - Mandatory investigation of sentinel event by health facility; exceptions
- Section 439.840 - Reports of sentinel events: Duties of Division; confidentiality
- Section 439.841 - Authority of Division to request additional information or to conduct audit or investigation; report of findings; payment of costs
- Section 439.843 - Annual summaries of reports of sentinel events; compilation by Division; confidentiality; posting of patient safety plans by Department on Internet website
- Section 439.845 - Analysis and reporting of trends regarding sentinel events; treatment of certain information regarding corrective action by health facility
- Section 439.847 - Participation in surveillance system by medical facilities and facilities for skilled nursing; access, analysis and reporting of information submitted to surveillance system by Division; regulations
- Section 439.855 - Notification of patients involved in sentinel events
- Section 439.856 - Provision of certain information relating to facility-acquired infections to patients
- Section 439.857 - Procedure for informing patient, legal guardian or other person that patient at medical facility has infection; immunity from liability for providing certain information
- Section 439.860 - Inadmissibility of certain information in administrative or legal proceeding
- Section 439.865 - Patient safety plan: Development; inclusion of infection control program to prevent and control infections; approval; notice; compliance; annual review and update
- Section 439.870 - Patient safety officer: Designation; duties
- Section 439.873 - Designation, duties and qualifications of infection control officer; required ratio of patients to employees with certain training in infection control; Division to provide education and technical assistance
- Section 439.875 - Patient safety committee: Establishment; composition; meetings; duties; proceedings and records are privileged
- Section 439.877 - Patient safety checklists and patient safety policies: Adoption by patient safety committee; required provisions; duties of patient safety committee
- Section 439.880 - Immunity from criminal and civil liability
- Section 439.885 - Violation by health facility: Administrative sanction prohibited when voluntarily reported; administrative sanction imposed when not voluntarily reported; appeal of imposition of sanction; accounting and expenditure of money
- Section 439.890 - Adoption of regulations