ORS 443.446: Residential Care Quality Measurement Program.

(1) The Residential Care Quality Measurement Program is established in the Department of Human Services. Under the program, the department shall, no later than July 1 of each year, publish an annual report, based on data reported by each residential care facility under subsection (2) of this section. Excluding data that identifies a resident, the report must include data compilation, illustration and narratives to: (a) Describe statewide patterns and trends that emerge from the data reported to the department under subsection (2) of this section and compliance data maintained by the department; (b) Identify residential care facilities that substantially failed to report data as required by this section; (c) Allow residential care facilities and the public to compare a residential care facility’s performance on each quality metric, by demographics, geographic region, facility type and other categories the department believes may be useful to consumers and facilities; (d) Show trends in performance on each of the quality metrics; (e) Identify patterns of performance by geographic regions and other categories the department believes will be useful to consumers; (f) Identify the number, severity and scope of regulatory violations by each geographic region; and (g) Show average timelines for surveys and for investigations of abuse or regulatory noncompliance. (2) Each residential care facility shall report, no later than January 31 of each year and in the form and manner prescribed by the Quality Measurement Council established under ORS 443.447, the quality metrics developed by the council under ORS 443.447. (3) The department shall make available an annual report to each residential care facility that reports quality metrics under subsection (2) of this section using data compilation, illustration and narratives to allow the residential care facility to measure and compare its quality metrics over time. (4) The department shall make available to the public in a standard format and in plain language the data reported by each residential care facility, excluding information that identifies a resident. (5) The department shall, using moneys from the Quality Care Fund established under ORS 443.001: (a) Develop online training modules to address the top two statewide issues identified by surveys or reviews of residential care facilities during the previous year; and (b) Post and regularly update the data used to prepare the report described in subsection (1) of this section. (6) The Quality Measurement Council, in consultation with the department, shall establish a uniform system for residential care facilities to report quality metrics as required by subsection (2) of this section. The system must: (a) Allow for electronic reporting of data, to the greatest extent practicable; and (b) Take into account and utilize existing data reporting systems used by residential care facilities. (7)(a) Quality metric data reported to the department under this section may not be used as the basis for an enforcement action by the department nor may the data be disclosed to another agency for use in an enforcement or regulatory action. (b) Quality metric data are not admissible as evidence in any civil action, including but not limited to judicial, administrative, arbitration or mediation proceedings. (c) Quality metric data reported to the department are not subject to: (A) Civil or administrative subpoena; or (B) Discovery in connection with a civil action, including but not limited to judicial, administrative, arbitration or mediation proceedings. (8) Subsection (7) of this section does not exempt a residential care facility from complying with state law or prohibit the department’s use of quality metric data obtained from another source in the normal course of business or compliance activity. [2017 c.679 §15; 2017 c.679 §17]