2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-89d. Nurse staffing and patient care data.
Sec. 19a-89d. Nurse staffing and patient care data. The Department of Public
Health shall: (1) Develop a single, uniform method for collecting and analyzing standardized data concerning the linkage between nurse staffing levels and the quality of
acute care, long-term care and home care, including patient outcomes; (2) conduct an
ongoing study of the relationship between nurse staffing patterns in hospitals and the
quality of health care, including patient outcomes; (3) obtain relevant licensure and
demographic data that may be available from other state agencies and make the data
collected under this subsection available to the public in a standardized format; and (4)
collaborate with hospitals and the nursing profession with respect to the collection of
standardized data concerning patient care outcomes at such hospitals and make such
data available to the public in a report card format.
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