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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2/4/11  1:55 pm
Commenter: Lanell Williams, RN, Infection Preventionist Riverside Walter Reed Hospital

Amendments to state reporting regulation
 

Riverside Walter Reed Hospital currently reports CLABSI in ICU. RWRH does not have the capability of downloading the denominator data directly to an outside source.  I am not sure if my facility will purchase a seperate program.This past year we participated in the Surgical Site Infection Pilot Program, and had a CLABSI site validation in December 3, 2009. I am  the only Infection Preventionist at my hospital, but I also fill in staffing as needed, and I am the Coordinator for ICU.  I have been the Infection Preventionist at RWRH for 1 year, and I feel that this is a full-time job; however, this is not an option. C-diff is not a problem at my facility, we do see cases; however they are not hospital acquired infections. The SCIP core measures are already being reported to several agencies. The workload for Infection Preventionist is increasing , but we are not being offered any extra staff to help with the workload.

 

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