12VAC5-90-370: Reporting of health care-associated infections

A. A health care facility that reports data into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) as a requirement of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shall share the data, through the NHSN, with the department.

B. A person making a report as authorized in this section shall be immune from liability as provided by § 32.1-38 of the Code of Virginia. Infection rate data may be released to the public by the department upon request. Data shall be aggregated to ensure that no individual patient may be identified.