Bill Text: MI HB4339 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health facilities; hospitals; inform and provide elderly persons with the pneumococcal vaccine; require under certain circumstances. Amends 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.1101 - 333.25211) by adding sec. 21529 & repeals sec. 21529 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.21529).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-19 - Printed Bill Filed 02/19/2009 [HB4339 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB4339-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4339
February 18, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Robert Jones, Durhal, Stanley and Young and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 21529; and to repeal
acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 21529. (1) Beginning October 1, 2009, a hospital shall
establish a strategic plan for managing its supply of the
pneumococcal vaccine. The plan shall be consistent with guidelines
or recommendations issued by the federal centers for disease
control and prevention or by the advisory committee on immunization
practices of the federal centers for disease control and
prevention. During the pneumonia season, if the hospital has the
vaccines available and supply is consistent with the hospital's
strategic plan, the hospital shall inform each person 65 years of
age or older who is admitted to the hospital for a period of 24
hours or more that the pneumococcal vaccine is available and offer
to provide the vaccine to those persons for whom the vaccine is not
contraindicative. If that person consents to be vaccinated against
pneumonia and a physician, nurse, pharmacist, or other independent
practicing licensed health care professional determines that there
is not a relative or absolute contraindication to giving the
vaccine, the health care professional shall administer the
pneumococcal vaccination to the person before he or she is
discharged from the hospital and shall document the vaccination in
the patient's medical record. The documentation of the vaccination
required under this section may be in the form of a written note
included in the patient's medical record indicating that he or she
had received the pneumococcal vaccine on a previous occasion,
received the vaccine, or refused the vaccine or that the vaccine
was not administered because a contraindication rendered the
administration of the vaccine inadvisable.
(2) As used in this section, "pneumonia season" means that
period between October 1 and March 1.
(3) This section is repealed effective April 1, 2012.
