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RSA 151:39 · Commissioner's Duties and Responsibilities
151:39 Commissioner's Duties and Responsibilities. –
Copy linkThe commissioner shall establish an adverse health event reporting system designed to facilitate quality improvement in the health care system. The reporting system shall not be designed to punish errors by health care practitioners or health care facility employees.
Copy linkMandatory completion of a root cause analysis and a corrective action plan by the facility and reporting of the findings of the analysis and the plan to the commissioner or reporting of reasons for not taking corrective action.
Copy linkAnalysis of reported information by the commissioner to determine patterns of systemic failure in the health care system and successful methods to correct these failures.
Copy linkSanctions against facilities for failure to comply with reporting system requirements.
Copy linkCommunication from the commissioner to health care facilities, health care purchasers, and the public to maximize the use of the reporting system to improve health care quality.
Copy linkThe commissioner is not authorized to select from or between competing alternate acceptable medical practices.
Copy linkAnalyze adverse event reports, corrective action plans, and findings of the root cause analyses to determine patterns of systemic failure in the health care system and successful methods to correct these failures.
Copy linkCommunicate to individual facilities the commissioner's conclusions, if any, regarding an adverse event reported by the facility.
Copy linkCommunicate with relevant health care facilities any recommendations for corrective action resulting from the commissioner's analysis of submissions from facilities.
Copy linkPublish an annual report describing, by facility, adverse events reported, outlining, in aggregate, corrective action plans and the findings of root cause analyses and making recommendations for legislation relative to state health care operations.
Copy linkThe commissioner shall report the list of reportable events under this section to the National Quality Forum and, working in coordination with the National Quality Forum, to the other states. The commissioner shall monitor discussions by the National Quality Forum of amendments to the forum's list of reportable events and shall report to the general court whenever the list needs to be modified. The commissioner shall also monitor implementation efforts in other states to establish a list of reportable events and shall make recommendations to the general court as necessary for modifications in the New Hampshire list or in the other components of the New Hampshire reporting system to keep the system as nearly uniform as possible with similar systems in other states.
Copy linkThe commissioner shall notify each hospital and ambulatory surgery center when the National Quality Forum publishes an amendment to the serious reportable events and specifications and immediately upon such notification, the amended serious reportable events and specifications shall be the reportable adverse events pursuant to this subdivision.
Copy linkNothing in this section shall be construed to limit the responsibilities and duties of the department under RSA 151. Source. 2009, 287:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2010. 2013, 27:2, eff. July 15, 2013.
Copy linkSource note
Source. 2009, 287:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2010. 2013, 27:2, eff. July 15, 2013.
Source history
- 2009, 287:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2010
- 2013, 27:2, eff. July 15, 2013
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