Resolve, To Further the Collection of Hospital Quality Data Regarding Nurse Staffing

Sec. 1. Maine Health Data Organization to enter into rulemaking to include nursing satisfaction survey results. Resolved: That the Maine Health Data Organization, in consultation with the Maine Quality Forum, shall amend 90-590 Maine Health Data Organization, Code of Maine Rules, Chapter 270: Uniform Reporting System for Quality Data Sets, to include the submission of measures of nursing satisfaction using only metrics that can be compared to national benchmark data; and be it further

Sec. 2. Department of Health and Human Services to enter into rulemaking to require hospitals to provide nurses annual notice of Whistleblowers' Protection Act. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall amend its rules on hospital licensing that implement the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, chapter 405 to require each hospital, once every calendar year, to notify individually each registered nurse in its employ of information, including the text of statutory provisions, regarding the Whistleblowers' Protection Act.