Section 22-B4504. ANNUAL REPORTS

 

4504.1A hospital of any type, unless specifically exempted by SHPDA, shall provide annually, the data required in Subsection 4504.2 for each of the following services:

 

(a) Total medical-surgical services (including intensive care beds, and cardiac care services);

 

(b) Intensive care service;

 

(c) Coronary care service;

 

(d) Obstetrics service;

 

(e) Obstetrics-gynecology swing service;

 

(f) Nursery service;

 

(g) Intermediate neonatal and neonatal intensive care services;

 

(h) Pediatric service; 

 

(i) Psychiatric service;

 

(j) Rehabilitation service;

 

(k) Alcoholism-chemical dependency service;

 

(l)Diagnostic imaging;

 

(m)Emergency service;

 

(n)Radiation therapy; and

 

(o)Any other service that SHPDA specifies after giving notice to the hospital at least thirty (30) days before the beginning of the period for which the data is required.

 

4504.2A hospital subject to § 4504.1 shall submit a report including the following information for each service specified in that subsection:

 

(a) The number of patients admitted during the reporting period for the purpose of receiving inpatient nursing care; in the nursery service, the number of admissions refers to newborn infants admitted to the hospital following birth and infants admitted following transfer from home or another hospital; in the intensive and coronary care units, the number of admissions include only those patients directly admitted to the units; patients initially admitted to the medical-surgical service and later transferred to intensive care shall be reported as intra-hospital transfers to those units;

 

(b) The number of deliveries, the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, regardless of the duration of pregnancy (excludes induced abortions); the number of deliveries includes live births and fetal deaths; multiple births shall be counted as one (1) delivery;

 

(c)The number of emergency room registrants, including the sum of visits to the emergency room and psychiatric emergency services that result in the acceptance of the patient for the purpose of receiving inpatient nursing care within the hospital;

 

(d)The number of deaths that occur before the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception; death is indicated by the fact that after separation from the mother, a fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles (excludes induced abortions);

 

(e) The number of patients receiving surgical procedures that are performed exclusively on an outpatient basis;

 

(f) The number of live births, which is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception (regardless of the duration of pregnancy) that, after separation from its mother, breathes or shows any other evidence of life (such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles) whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached;

 

(g) The number of bassinets or cribs regularly maintained for use by infants as of the last day of the reporting period;

 

(h) The number of beds regularly maintained for use by inpatients as of the last day of the reporting period;

 

(i) The number of patients who registered to receive care in an organized outpatient department;

 

(j) The total number of patient days of care rendered during the reporting period (i.e., the cumulative sum of the number of occupied beds in a particular service on each day of the reporting period); and

 

(k) Other data that SHPDA may require.

 

 

authority

§ 22 of the Health Services Planning Program Re-establishment Act of 1996 (Act), effective April 9, 1997 (D.C. Law 11-191; D.C. Official Code § 44-421 (2012 Repl.)).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 29 DCR 5569 (December 17, 1982), enacting Proposed Rulemaking published at 29 DCR 4742 (October 29, 1982); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 1666 (February 28, 2014).