Hospitals Legislation - Missouri

SB 1264 -Under this act, all licensed hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers must submit reports of serious events and incidents to a Patient Safety Authority, which is created under the act. The authority will analyze the collected data to identify trends and recommend changes in healthcare practices and procedures that may be instituted to reduce the number and severity of future serious events and incidents. In addition, the authority will provide individual facilities with detailed reports analyzing data related to their specific facilities or to certain geographic regions and the state as a whole. A health care worker may file an anonymous report regarding a serious event with the authority. Upon receipt of the report, the authority shall give notice to the affected medical facility that a report has been filed. The authority shall conduct its own review of the report unless the medical facility has already commenced an investigation of the serious event. The medical facility [...]

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SB 1233 - Current law provides for the Department of Health and Senior Services to designate hospitals as adult, pediatric, or adult and pediatric trauma centers upon proper application and review. This act requires the department to also designate a hospital as a STEMI or stroke center when the hospital, upon proper application and review, has been found by the department to meet the applicable level of STEMI or stroke center criteria. Such criteria shall be promulgated by the department. No hospital shall hold itself out to the public as such a center unless it is so designated by the department. STEMI, or a ST-elevation myocardial infarction, is defined as a type of heart attack in which impaired blood flow to the patient's heart muscle is evidenced by ST-segment elevation in electrocardiogram analysis and as further defined by the department. Patients who suffer a STEMI shall be transported by emergency medical services to a STEMI center. Patients who suffer a stroke shall be transported [...]

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SB 1216 - This act requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to implement a health care quality program for the purpose of making available a health care quality report card to allow consumers to compare and assess the quality of health care services. The program shall be implemented in two phases. The first phase includes making available cost and quality outcome data on its Internet website by December 31, 2009. The data on the website shall consist of quality and performance outcome and patient charge data currently collected by the department from hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers under federal and state law, as well as data submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services already required to be submitted under federal law. The data shall be disclosed in a manner that allows consumers to conduct an interactive search. The second phase shall be implemented by December 31, 2011, and shall consist of the department working with the recommendations from [...]

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SB 1103 - This act modifies provisions of the Family Care Safety Registry. This act removes the 2001 and 2002 employment dates for when all child-care, elder-care and personal care workers are required to register with the Family Care Safety Registry and requires all such workers, regardless of when they began employment, to register. Also, all employers regulated by, contracting with or who receive state or federal reimbursement services shall be required to ensure employees are registered. Under this act, providers certified, contracted or regulated by state agencies will be allowed to obtain specific detailed background screening information immediately. The registry will also provide background screening information to voluntary or recreational associations performing background screenings on unpaid volunteers who are placed in a child-care, elder-care, or personal-care setting. In addition, the registry will be allowed to report national criminal history information as authorized [...]

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