Designates Carbapenem-resistent Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) as a communicable disease, and requires general hospitals to identify, track and report upon such disease.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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781
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to designating Carba-
penem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) as a communicable disease and
requiring general hospitals to identify and track the incidence of
such communicable disease in accordance with the hospital acquired
infection reporting system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 21 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new title 8 to read as follows:
3 TITLE 8
4 CARBAPENEM-RESISTANT
5 ENTEROBACTERIACEAE
6 Section 2180. Designation as communicable disease; general hospital
7 reporting.
8 § 2180. Designation as communicable disease; general hospital report-
9 ing. 1. The commissioner shall designate as a communicable disease and
10 include as such in the sanitary code, Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter-
11 iaceae (CRE). Such disease shall be subject to the provisions of this
12 article which are applicable to other communicable diseases.
13 2. Every general hospital shall identify and track each incident of
14 Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and shall, on a monthly basis,
15 report each such incident to the department. Furthermore, the department
16 shall include Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in its regulations
17 requiring general hospitals to identify, track and report hospital
18 acquired infections pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred nineteen of
19 this chapter.
20 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2819 of the public health law is amended
21 by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
22 Such term shall also include Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
23 (CRE).
24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04021-01-5
