SENATE BILL No. 800

 

 

September 23, 2007, Introduced by Senators GLEASON, CLARK-COLEMAN, SCOTT, CLARKE and JACOBS 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, 2008, a hospital shall

 

establish a strategic plan for managing its supply of the influenza

 

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 influenza season, if the hospital has the

 

influenza vaccine 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 influenza 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 influenza 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

 

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 vaccine 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

 

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, "influenza season" means that

 

period between October 1 and March 1.

 

     (3) This section is repealed effective April 1, 2011.