FL S1434

Requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop annual patient safety culture surveys for hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers measuring adverse events, teamwork, safety reporting comfort, regulatory compliance, and staff perceptions of facility safety.

Mandates surveys be anonymous and based on nationally recognized survey products including those from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the University of Texas Safety Attitudes Questionnaire.

Makes submission of patient safety culture survey data a condition of licensure for hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers under section 408.810.

Includes facility patient safety culture surveys in the data submission requirements for health care facilities to the Agency for Health Care Administration under section 408.061.

Becomes effective July 1, 2017, with conforming changes to cross-references in sections involving financial ability requirements and licensure exemptions.