New NHSN Reporting Requirements: Confident Your Organization Is Prepared?

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New NHSN Reporting Requirements: Confident Your Organization Is Prepared?

With Flu season in full swing and Covid cases on the rise, it is important to understand updated, mandatory reporting requirements for hospitals as well as critical access hospitals. The National Healthcare and Safety Network (NHSN) is working to prepare facilities for new reporting requirements through web-based education. Individuals who are tasked with reporting quality data into NHSN will need to be prepared to do so in coming months.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing the following upcoming webinars:

All facility types listed below will be required to report hospital respiratory data to nhsn on a weekly basis

Now is the time to ensure that data is being collected daily. In addition, data reports should be shared with the individual who is responsible for NHSN data reporting in your organization. Data points that should be collected include bed capacity, patients admitted and hospitalized with Covid-19, Influenza and RSV along with patient age. Additional reporting requirements such as personal protective equipment supply on hand is optional.


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References:

https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/updated-hospital-reporting-requirements-for-respiratory-viruses.html#:~:text=Beginning%20November%201%2C%202024%2C%20the,Secretary%20of%20Health%20and%20Human

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