FL H0375

Agency for Health Care Administration must design an annual patient safety culture survey for hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to measure aspects including adverse events, handoffs, error reporting comfort, teamwork, safety compliance, facility support perception, and staff willingness to use facility services.

Survey must be anonymous and reviewed against nationally recognized products including federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality surveys and the University of Texas Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, with exemption for state-operated facilities.

Hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers must submit facility patient safety culture survey data as a condition of licensure in accordance with applicable rules.

Health care facilities must include patient safety culture survey data in submissions to the Agency for Health Care Administration under data collection requirements, using nationally recognized risk adjustment methodologies.

Appropriation of $352,919 in recurring funds from Health Care Trust Fund and one full-time equivalent position authorized for 2017-2018 fiscal year; effective date July 1, 2017.