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For Your Information:
ODH Seeks Comments on Draft Infectious Disease Rules
The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) has posted draft rule changes on its Web site and is asking hospitals to comment by June 13. Proposed changes include reorganizing reportable disease classes, adding a new "outbreak" class, providing for use of electronic reporting, modifying isolation requirements and adopting the department's Infectious Disease Control Manual as a standard. The draft rules follow drafts posted last year followed by a survey of hospital infection control practitioners and local health departments. Find the draft rules and ODH explanatory memorandum at http://www.odh.ohio.gov/rules/drafts/copy_3701-3a.aspx.
Copy OHA’s Senior Director of Health Policy Rick Sites on any comments sent to ODH.
Dawn K. Knopp, RN, CPHQ
Project Leader/ Field Rep
Ohio KePRO
5700 Lombardo Center Dr Suite 100
Seven Hills OH 44131
Phone: (937) 286-8570
Fax:
Email: dknopp@ohqio.sdps.org
Interactive web site at www.ohiokepro.com
1-800-385-5080
Ohio KePRO Provider QIC Line
Your Quality Improvement Connection
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1/30/2007 IMPORTANT NOTICE from the Ohio Department Of Health on "Elimination of Health Care Services Data Reporting", click here for letter.
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January 30, 2007: SHEA and APIC, the position statement on Legislative Mandates for Use of Active Surveillance Cultures to Screen for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci. Click here for more information.