{"id":"DE-063","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Delaware","state":"DE","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Molly K. Magarik, Cabinet Secretary, Department of Health and Social Services (Division of Health Care Quality)","authority":"16 Del. C. § 1119C; 29 Del. C. § 10119","instrument":"Emergency Secretary\u0027s Order amending 16 DE Admin. Code 3201, Skilled and Intermediate Care Nursing Facilities, § 6.10 Infection Control (25 Del. Reg. 6 (July 1, 2021))","title":"DHSS Emergency Secretary\u0027s Order: every nursing facility must expand its infection control program with an infection control coordinator, records, corrective mechanisms and training","dateIssued":"2021-06-25","effective":"2021-07-01 (120 days)","end":"2021-10-28 (renewable once for 60 days); vaccination-or-testing orders for 3201-series facilities effective Sept. 30, 2021 (Public Archives index)","startDate":"2021-07-01","endDate":"2021-10-28","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["HC","EMP"],"addressees":["every licensed skilled and intermediate care nursing facility"],"clause":"§ 6.10 Infection Control as modified: the facility\u0027s committee \u0027shall be to manage the infection control program in the facility. One member of the committee program shall be designated the infection control coordinator\u0027; \u0027The infection control coordinator... must: maintain records of all\u0027 infections and implement a plan \u0027that... improve[s] the nursing facility\u0027s infection control outcomes\u0027; \u0027The infection control committee shall establish the infection control training.\u0027 \u0027This Emergency Order shall take effect on July 1, 2021 and shall remain in effect for 120 days.... It is hereby ordered, this 25th day of June, 2021.\u0027","enforcement":"Nursing-facility licensure under 16 Del. C. ch. 11 and 16 DE Admin. Code 3201; 29 Del. C. § 10119","functions":["IC/RS nursing-facility infection control in force every day of 2021 Q3"],"notes":"Long-term-care regulator instrument; the Twenty-Ninth Modification § G-H rules governed the same facilities through July 12, 2021 and the Public Health Emergency suspended their staffing ratios from July 13, 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://archive.regulations.delaware.gov/register/july2021/emergency/25%20DE%20Reg%206%2007-01-21.htm","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":517887,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"DE","url":"/library/DE-063","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DE-063","citation":"Molly K. Magarik, Cabinet Secretary, Department of Health and Social Services (Division of Health Care Quality), Emergency Secretary\u0027s Order amending 16 DE Admin. Code 3201, Skilled and Intermediate Care Nursing Facilities, § 6.10 Infection Control (25 Del. Reg. 6 (July 1, 2021)) (June 25, 2021) (Ex. DE-063)","stateName":"Delaware","related":["DE-061","DE-062"]}