IA SF581

Requires hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and birth centers to report serious reportable events (as defined by the National Quality Forum) to the Director of the Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing within 15 working days of discovery

Mandates facilities conduct a root cause analysis following each serious reportable event and either implement a corrective action plan or report reasons for not taking corrective action within 60 working days

Designates all serious reportable event reports, root cause analyses, and corrective action plans as confidential records under Iowa Code section 22.7, protecting identifying information of healthcare professionals, employees, and patients

Authorizes the director to sanction facilities for non-compliance with reporting requirements, including placing conditions on facility licenses for failure to develop and implement corrective action plans

Requires the boards of medicine, physician assistants, nursing, pharmacy, and podiatry to forward reports of serious reportable events to the director within 30 working days of determining an event qualifies as reportable