Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007
Latest action · Oct 31, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13630-13632)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 31, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007 - Directs the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop best-practices guidelines for internal infection control plans to prevent, detect, control, and treat community and healthcare-associated infections at hospitals.
Requires AHRQ to: (1) establish best practices with supporting justification, including the establishment of an infection control oversight committee; (2) collaborate with other agencies and organizations whose area of expertise is the identification, treatment, and prevention of infectious disease; (3) publish proposed guidelines; (4) provide for a comment period of not less than 90 days; and (5) establish final guidelines.
Directs the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to: (1) consult best practices guidelines in evaluating hospitals' infection control plans as a condition of participation in the Medicare program; and (2) report to Congress on the feasibility of reducing healthcare-associated infection rates through a Quality Improvement Payment Program.
Requires: (1) hospitals to report information about community and healthcare-associated infections to the CDC National Healthcare Safety Network, which shall be used by the CDC to develop a national database of infection rates in hospitals; (2) the Director of the CDC to award grants to states to carry out public awareness campaigns; (3) the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and intensify NIH programs regarding research and related activities concerning such infections; (4) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group on community and healthcare-associated infections; and (5) the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to Congress on this Act's impact.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 31, 2007 to Dec 17, 2007; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Barack Obama | Original | Oct 31, 2007 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Oct 31, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Nov 2, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Nov 7, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Nov 14, 2007 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Dec 10, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Dec 17, 2007 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Oct 31, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 31, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Oct 31, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13629-13630)
- Oct 31, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13630-13632)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S13629Text printed S13630–S13632 | Richard J. Durbin D-IL (text) | Oct 31, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 4214 | Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007 | Identical bill | Nov 15, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of community and healthcare-associated infections (CHAI), with a focus on antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Communicable diseases
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Health information systems
- Health surveys
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Law
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medicare
- Preventive medicine
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 31, 2007Introduced in Senate
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