Pennsylvania’s nursing homes have started to report health care-associated infections through the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS).
Reporting began with facilities in the east during the first week of June 2009 and will be phased in across the state in the following weeks. All facilities had to start reporting by the end of June.
This change came under the same law that required hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities (ASFs)—which were already reporting serious events through PA-PSRS—to include infections in their reports.
Nursing home reporting took longer to implement because they had never used PA-PSRS.
The law, Act 52 of 2007, also required nursing homes, hospitals, and ASFs to develop infection control plans.