To facilitate enforcement of department rules and requirements concerning nursing home operations, the department shall request and consolidate data concerning nursing homes reported to other State and federal authorities, including the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Human Services, Medicaid managed care organizations, and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, in order to identify nursing homes with consistent or repeated performance issues, ongoing compliance issues, or high numbers of substantiated complaints. The department shall make the consolidated data collected under this subsection available upon request to other State and federal entities having jurisdiction over nursing homes in the State.
N.J.S. § 26:2H-46.2