California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3.5 - Hospital Infectious Disease Control Program

Section 1288.45.
For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “Advisory committee” or “HAI-AC” means the Healthcare Associated Infection Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 1288.5.(b) “Health-care-associated...
Section 1288.5.
(a) By July 1, 2007, the department shall appoint a Healthcare Associated Infection Advisory Committee (HAI-AC) that shall make recommendations related to methods of reporting cases...
Section 1288.55.
(a) (1) Each health facility, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1255.8, shall quarterly report all cases of health-care-associated MRSA bloodstream infection, health-care-associated...
Section 1288.6.
(a) (1) Each general acute care hospital, in collaboration with infection prevention and control professionals, and with the participation of senior health care facility leadership shall, as...
Section 1288.7.
By July 1, 2007, the department shall require that each general acute care hospital, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control guidelines, take all...
Section 1288.8.
(a) By January 1, 2008, the department shall take all of the following actions to protect against HAI in general acute care hospitals statewide:(1) Implement an HAI...
Section 1288.85.
Each general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, shall do all of the following by July 1, 2015:(a) Adopt and implement...
Section 1288.9.
By January 1, 2009, the department shall do all of the following:(a) Require each general acute care hospital to develop, implement, and periodically evaluate compliance with...
Section 1288.95.
(a) No later than January 1, 2010, a physician designated as a hospital epidemiologist or infection surveillance, prevention, and control committee chairperson shall participate in a...

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