Section 151:40 Penalties; Fund Established.
I. Any facility which violates this subdivision for failure to file a timely adverse event report or failure to conduct a root cause analysis, to implement a corrective action plan, or to provide the findings of a root cause analysis or corrective action plan in a timely fashion shall be subject to disciplinary action under this chapter and any other appropriate sanctions under this chapter.
II. There is hereby established the ""adverse events'' fund to be used to carry out the provisions of this subdivision. The fund shall be composed of fines collected under this chapter, gifts, grants, donations, bequests, or other moneys from any public or private source and shall be used to support adverse event data collection, analysis, reporting, and education. The fund shall be nonlapsing and shall be continually appropriated to the commissioner of the department of health and human services for the purposes of this subdivision.
Source. 2009, 287:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.