79 FR 74 pgs. 21760-21763 - Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Type: NOTICEVolume: 79Number: 74Pages: 21760 - 21763
Pages: 21760, 21761, 21762, 21763FR document: [FR Doc. 2014-08551 Filed 4-16-14; 8:45 am]
Agency: Health and Human Services Department
Sub Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as amended most recently at 79 FR 15593-15594, dated March 20, 2014) is amended to reflect the reorganization of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as follows:
Delete in its entirety the title and the mission and function statements for the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (CVLD) and insert the following:
[top] Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (CVLD). The mission of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) is to protect patients; protect healthcare personnel; and promote safety, quality, and value in both national and international healthcare delivery systems. In carrying out its mission, DHQP: (1) Measures, validates, interprets, and responds to data relevant to healthcare-associated infections (HAI); antimicrobial use and resistance; adverse drug events; blood, organ and tissue safety; immunization safety; and other related adverse events or medical errors in healthcare affecting patients and healthcare personnel; (2) investigates and responds to emerging infections and related adverse events among patients and healthcare personnel; (3) develops and maintains the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), a tool for monitoring healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial use and resistance, measuring healthcare outcomes and processes, monitoring healthcare worker vaccination, and selected health measures in healthcare facilities; (4) assesses local, regional, national scope and burden of infections caused by resistant-bacteria in the U.S. through surveillance and special studies, review of national healthcare data sets, and laboratory surveillance programs; (5) conducts epidemiologic, and basic and applied laboratory research to identify new strategies to monitor and prevent infections/antimicrobial resistance, and related adverse events or medical errors, especially those associated with medical or surgical procedures, indwelling medical devices, contaminated products, dialysis, and water; (6) collaborates with academic and public health partners to design, develop, and evaluate new approaches to monitoring infections and the efficacy of interventions for preventing infections and reducing antimicrobial resistance, and related adverse events or medical errors; (7) develops and disseminates evidence-based guidelines and recommendations to prevent and control HAI, antimicrobial resistance, and related adverse events or medical errors; (8) promotes the nationwide implementation of CDC guidelines and other evidence-based interventions to prevent HAI, antimicrobial resistance, and related adverse events or medical
Office of the Director (CVLD1). (1) Manages, directs, and coordinates the activities of the DHQP; (2) provides leadership and guidance on policy and communications/media; (3) works with Federal agencies, international organizations, and other partners on activities related to safe healthcare; (4) coordinates state and local activities to monitor and prevent HAI; (5) coordinates, in collaboration with the appropriate CIO and CDC components, global health activities relating to the prevention of healthcare-associated infections/antimicrobial resistance, and related adverse events or medical errors; (6) coordinates activities, guidance, emergency response, and research related to infection control in healthcare settings across the agency and with national and international partners; (7) oversees the coordination of antimicrobial resistance activities at CDC; (8) represents CDC as co-chair of the Federal Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance; (9) coordinates with other agencies, state governments, medical societies, and other public and private organizations to enhance antimicrobial resistance prevention and control, surveillance and response, and applied research; (10) leads CDC's activities on blood, organ, and other tissue safety; (11) represents CDC on the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability and the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation; (12) works with other Federal agencies, state governments, and other public and private organizations to enhance blood, organ, and other tissue safety through coordination of investigation, prevention, response, surveillance, applied research, health communication, and public policy; and (13) advises the Director, NCEZID, on science, policy and communication matters concerning DHQP activities.
Program Implementation and Integration Activity (CVLD13). (1) Provides leadership and guidance for program planning and development, program management, and operations; (2) provides DHQP-wide administrative and program services and coordinates or ensures coordination with the appropriate CIOs and CDC staff offices on administrative and program matters including budget formulation and execution and human resource management; (3) oversees the coordination of Federal and state programs and new initiatives to prevent HAI; (4) interprets general program and administrative policy directives for implications on management and execution of DHQP's programs; (5) serves as lead and primary contact and liaison with relevant CDC staff offices on all matters pertaining to DHQP's procurement needs and activities; (6) provides management and coordination for DHQP-occupied space and facilities including laboratory space and facilities; (7) provides oversight and management of the distribution, accountability, and maintenance of CDC property and equipment including laboratory property and equipment; and (8) provides program and administrative support for HICPAC.
Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch (CVLDB). (1) Leads national laboratory characterization of HAI-related threats in partnership with state and regional laboratories; (2) provides comprehensive laboratory support and expertise for investigations of recognized and emerging bacterial agents in healthcare settings; (3) provides laboratory response to outbreaks and emerging threats associated with infections/antimicrobial resistance and related adverse events throughout the healthcare delivery system; (4) develops methods to assess contamination of environmental surfaces; (5) investigates novel and emerging mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance among targeted pathogens found in healthcare settings; (6) conducts research in collaboration with partners to develop new, accurate methods of detecting antimicrobial resistance in bacteria and to improve reporting of antimicrobial susceptibility test results to physicians to improve antimicrobial use; (7) conducts laboratory research to identify new strategies to prevent infections/antimicrobial resistance, related adverse events, and medical errors, especially those associated with invasive medical devices, contaminated products, dialysis, and water; (8) maintains capacity to evaluate commercial microbial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems and products and facilitates their improvement to provide accurate patient test results; (9) investigates the role of biofilms, particularly those detected in indwelling medical devices and medical water systems, in medicine and public health, and identifies novel methods to eliminate colonization and biofilm formation on foreign bodies; (10) investigates the role of the water distribution systems in healthcare facilities in order to understand and prevent transmission of healthcare-associated infections due to water; and (11) provides expertise, research opportunities, training, and laboratory support for investigations of infections and related adverse events to other CDC National Centers and to our partners in areas related to quality clinical microbiology laboratory practices, investigation of emerging pathogens and environmental microbiology.
[top] Prevention and Response Branch (CVLDC). Across the healthcare continuum, including acute, long-term, ambulatory, and chronic care settings: (1) Develops, promotes, and monitors implementation of evidence-based recommendations, standards, policies, strategies and related educational materials to prevent and control HAI and related adverse events, adverse drug events, and healthcare personnel safety events associated with antibiotic resistance, device and procedure associated infections, poor adherence to quality standards and safety, and emerging infectious diseases; (2) develops, promotes, and monitors implementation of and adherence to evidence-based recommendations, standards and related educational
Surveillance Branch (CVLDD). (1) Monitors and evaluates on the national level the extent distribution, and impact of healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial use and resistance, adverse drug events, healthcare worker safety events, and adherence to clinical processes and intervention programs designed to prevent or control adverse exposures or outcomes in healthcare; (2) provides services, including leadership, consultation, and analysis support, for statistical methods and analysis to investigators in the branch, division, and other organizations responsible for surveillance, research studies, and prevention and control of HAT and other healthcare-associated adverse events; (3) works with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other partners to develop new metrics and support maintenance of NQF-approved metrics; (4) collaborates with public and private sector partners to further standardize, integrate, and streamline systems by which healthcare organizations collect, manage, analyze, report, and respond to data on clinical guideline adherence, HAI, including transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms and other HAI; (5) coordinates, further develops, enables wider use, and maintains NHSN to obtain scientifically valid clinical performance indices that promote healthcare quality and value at the facility, state, and national levels; (6) development and implementation of new NHSN modules and provides enrollment and user support for NHSN; (7) improve system by utilizing new technology; (8) generates and provides NHSN surveillance reports and analyses, which include collaborative analytic projects with partners; and (9) leads CDC's national adverse drug events surveillance activities and seeks to translate population-based surveillance data into evidence-based policies and targeted, innovative and collaborative interventions.
Immunization Safety Office (CVLDE). (1) Assesses the safety of new and currently available vaccines received by children, adolescents and adults using a variety of strategies; (2) conducts ongoing surveillance for the timely detection of possible adverse events following immunization (AEFI) in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration, through coordination and management of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the national spontaneous reporting system that acts as an early-warning system to detect health conditions that may be associated with immunization; (3) coordinates, further develops, maintains and directs activities of the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a collaborative effort with integrated healthcare organizations, to conduct surveillance and investigate possible AEFI to assess causality and determine risk factors; (4) conducts epidemiologic research on causality of AEFI using the VSD and other data sources, provide national estimates of incidence of AEFI and background rates of health conditions; (5) leads the nation in developing biostatistical methods for research of AEFI using large linked databases and other data sources, and shares methods for use by other agencies and public and private entities; (6) conducts clinical research to identify causes of adverse events after immunization, specific populations susceptible to specific adverse events, and prevention strategies through the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment network, a national network of medical research centers, and other efforts; (7) applies findings from epidemiologic and clinical studies to develop strategies for prevention of AEFI; (8) provides global consultation and leadership for the development, use, and interpretation of vaccine safety surveillance systems, and for the development of shared definitions of specific health outcomes through participation in the Brighton Collaboration and other international organizations; (9) provides data for action to HHS, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the Food Drug Administration's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, HRSA's Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, and collaborators around the globe including the World Health Organization Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety; and (10) provides timely, accurate communication and education to partners and the public on vaccine safety concerns.
[top] Epidemiology Research and Innovations Branch (CVLDG). (1) Develops and evaluates the efficacy of interventions to prevent HAI and related adverse events or medical errors across the spectrum of healthcare delivery sites including acute and longterm inpatient care, dialysis, and ambulatory settings; (2) conducts and supports research and evaluates impact of public health practices to prevent HAIs and related adverse events and monitors progress in reaching national prevention goals; (3) identifies gaps in HAI-health entities for specific interventions and prevention strategies designed to safeguard patients and healthcare workers from risk exposures and adverse outcomes through collaborations with extramural partners; (5) conducts applied research to identify and develop innovative methods to detect and monitor HAI and antimicrobial resistance; (6) conducts special studies to identify key risk factor for and provides national estimates of targeted, healthcare-associated adverse events, antimicrobial use and resistance patterns, and the extent to which prevention and control safeguards are in use to protect at-risk patients across the spectrum of healthcare delivery sites; (7) develops new ways to assess the impact of HAI prevention programs; (8) conducts analysis of the return on investment and costs related to
Dated: April 7, 2014.
Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-08551 Filed 4-16-14; 8:45 am]
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