Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
 
Agency
Virginia Department of Health
 
Board
State Board of Health
 
chapter
Regulations for Disease Reporting and Control [12 VAC 5 ‑ 90]
Action Expanded Requirements for Reporting Healthcare-Associated Infections
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 4/1/2011
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4/1/11  11:13 am
Commenter: DMH, RN, Critical Care, RRMC

Public Reporting on HAI
 

The proposed mandatory reporting is partially redundant and without evidence of improving patient outcomes.  The resources required to provide administrative support to the multitude of current reporting requirments are most often at the expense of augmenting resources at the bedside tthat have opportunity to "prevent HAI"   Additionally, it has been my expereience that the benefit of public reporting has a finite end point and beyond only adds additional burden to respond and expalian information that is often very complex, particularly to the public.  It is not in the interest of clinical excellence to keep government agencies in business. Thank yo for the opportunity to respond. 

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