Section 22-B208. HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS

 

208.1Acute care, ambulatory, long-term acute care, skilled nursing, and outpatient renal dialysis facilities shall permit the Director access through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to data on health care-associated infections (HAIs)). Each of these facilities shall report the following HAIs according to the definitions provided in the most current edition of the NHSN manual (http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/).

 

(a)Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs);

 

(b)Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs);

 

(c)Surgical site infections (SSI):

 

(1)SSI: Abdominal hysterectomy; and

 

(2)SSI: Colon surgery;

 

(d)Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA);

 

(e)Clostridium difficile (C.difficile);

 

(f)Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriacae (CRE); and

 

(g)An infection considered of public health concern by the Director.

208.2All health care facilities shall report a confirmed or suspected HAI outbreak (as defined in § 299.1) to the Director by telephone or in writing within twenty-four    (24) hours.

 

authority

Section 1 of An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and preventable diseases ("Act"), approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1408, ch. 601, § 1; D.C. Official Code § 7-131 (2012 Repl.)), and § 2 of Mayor's Order 98-141, dated August 20, 1998.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 56 DCR 848 (January 23, 2009); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 15116 (December 9, 2016).