House Bill 1851
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Florida House of Representatives - 2000 HB 1851
By Representative Crow
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to hospital internal risk
3 management; amending s. 395.0197, F.S.;
4 revising circumstances under which certain
5 adverse incidents occurring in a hospital,
6 ambulatory surgical center, or mobile surgical
7 facility must be reported to the Agency for
8 Health Care Administration; requiring the
9 agency to annually publish report cards
10 summarizing each such facility's incident
11 reports; requiring the report cards to be
12 available to the public on-line and through
13 other means by a specified date; specifying
14 organization and minimum contents of the report
15 cards; providing an effective date.
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17 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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19 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (5) and
20 subsection (18) of section 395.0197, Florida Statutes, are
21 amended to read:
22 395.0197 Internal risk management program.--
23 (5) For purposes of reporting to the agency pursuant
24 to this section, the term "adverse incident" means an event
25 over which health care personnel could exercise control and
26 which is associated in whole or in part with medical
27 intervention, rather than the condition for which such
28 intervention occurred, and which:
29 (c) Required the surgical repair of damage resulting
30 to a patient from a planned surgical procedure, where the
31 damage was not a recognized specific risk, as disclosed to the
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1 patient and documented through the informed-consent process;
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3 (18) The agency shall annually publish a report card
4 summarizing the information contained in the annual incident
5 reports submitted by licensed facilities pursuant to
6 subsection (6) and disciplinary actions reported to the agency
7 pursuant to s. 395.0193. The report card must be made
8 available to the public through the World Wide Web and other
9 commonly used means of distribution no later than July 1 of
10 each year. The report card must be organized by county and, at
11 a minimum, for each hospital and other licensed facility in
12 the state, present an itemized list showing summarize:
13 (a) The name and address of the facility.
14 (b) Whether the facility is private, for profit or not
15 for profit, or public.
16 (c) The total number of beds.
17 (d) A description of the categories of services
18 provided by the facility.
19 (e)(a) The number of adverse incidents, by category of
20 reported incident, and by type of professional involved.
21 (f) A listing, by category, of the types of
22 operations, diagnostic or treatment procedures, or other
23 actions or inactions, giving rise to the adverse incidents and
24 the number of adverse incidents in each category.
25 (g)(b) Types of malpractice claims filed, by type of
26 professional involved.
27 (h)(c) Disciplinary actions taken against
28 professionals, by type of professional involved.
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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Revises circumstances under which adverse incidents in a
4 hospital, ambulatory surgical center, or mobile surgical
center, requiring surgical repair of damage resulting
5 from a planned surgery, must be reported to the Agency
for Health Care Administration. Requires the agency's
6 annual summary of such incident reports to be published
in the form of report cards for each facility, and
7 specifies organization and minimum contents. Requires the
report cards to be made available to the public via the
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