Senate Bill 325, now being considered by the Nevada Legislature, initially mandated MRSA testing at hospitals and the reporting of infection cases to state health officials. The state would then have the number of cases available to the public. That bill was amended to “authorize” rather than require a program to identify MRSA patients at hospitals and to “develop a model for reporting” those cases to the state by 2012. Twenty-six states have made hospital infection information easy for people to find, but efforts to do that in Nevada have traditionally been blunted by hospital industry lobbyists, writes Reno Gazette Journal.
