Nevada § 439.865 - Patient safety plan: Development; inclusion of infection control program to prevent and control infections; approval; notice; compliance; annual review and update

§ 439.865. Patient safety plan: Development; inclusion of infection control program to prevent and control infections; approval; notice; compliance; annual review and update

1. Each medical facility that is located within this state shall develop, in consultation

with the providers of health care who provide treatment to patients at the medical

facility, an internal patient safety plan to improve the health and safety of patients

who are treated at that medical facility. 2. The patient safety plan must include, without limitation: (a) The patient safety checklists and patient safety policies most recently adopted

pursuant to NRS 439.877 . (b) An infection control program to prevent and control infections within the medical

facility. To carry out the program, the medical facility shall adopt an infection control

policy. The policy must consist of: (1) The current guidelines appropriate for the facility’s scope of service developed

by a nationally recognized infection control organization as approved by the State

Board of Health which may include, without limitation, the Association for Professionals

in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization

and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; and (2) Facility-specific infection control developed under the supervision of a certified

infection preventionist. 3. The program to prevent and control infections within the medical facility must

provide for the designation of a person who is responsible for infection control when

the infection control officer is absent to ensure that someone is responsible for

infection control at all times. 4. A medical facility shall submit its patient safety plan to the governing board

of the medical facility for approval in accordance with the requirements of this section. 5. After a medical facility's patient safety plan is approved, the medical facility

shall notify all providers of health care who provide treatment to patients at the

medical facility of the existence of the plan and of the requirements of the plan. A medical facility shall require compliance with its patient safety plan. 6. The patient safety plan must be reviewed and updated annually in accordance with

the requirements for approval set forth in this section.