The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 1919)
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§ 1919. Inclusion of data in hospital community reports
The Commissioner shall consult with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation and with
patient safety experts, hospitals, health care professionals, and members of the public
and shall make recommendations to the Commissioner of Financial Regulation concerning
which data should be included in the hospital community reports required by section 9405b of this title. Beginning in 2013, the community reports shall include at a minimum data from all
Vermont hospitals of reportable adverse events aggregated in a manner that protects
the privacy of the patients involved and does not identify the individual hospitals
in which an event occurred together with analysis and explanatory comments about the
information contained in the report to facilitate the public’s understanding of the
data. The Commissioner shall make such recommendations no more than 18 months after
data collection is initiated. (Added 2005, No. 215 (Adj. Sess.), § 324; amended 2011, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 24f, eff. Feb. 1, 2013.)