439.840 - Reports of sentinel events: Duties of Health Division; confidentiality.
439.840 Reports of sentinel events: Duties of Health Division; confidentiality.
1. The Health Division shall:
(a) Collect and maintain reports received pursuant to NRS 439.835 and 439.843 and any additional information requested by the Health Division pursuant to NRS 439.841;
(b) Ensure that such reports, and any additional documents created from such reports, are protected adequately from fire, theft, loss, destruction and other hazards and from unauthorized access;
(c) Annually prepare a report of sentinel events reported pursuant to NRS 439.835 by a medical facility located in a county whose population is 100,000 or more, including, without limitation, the type of event, the number of events and the medical facility which reported the event; and
(d) Annually prepare a summary of the reports received pursuant to NRS 439.835 and provide a summary for inclusion on the Internet website maintained pursuant to NRS 439A.270. The Health Division shall maintain the confidentiality of the reports submitted pursuant to NRS 439.835 when preparing the annual summary pursuant to this paragraph.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 239.0115, reports received pursuant to NRS 439.835 and subsection 1 of NRS 439.843 and any additional information requested by the Health Division pursuant to NRS 439.841 are confidential, not subject to subpoena or discovery and not subject to inspection by the general public.
(Added to NRS by 2002 Special Session, 14; A 2007, 2107; 2009, 553, 3068)