1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Healthcare Acquired Infection and Medical Error Transparency Act . 2. Findings (1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that each day one in thirty-one hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection; (2) 32 percent of all healthcare-acquired infections are urinary tract; (3) 22 percent of all infections are surgical site infections; (4) 15 percent are pneumonia (lung infections); (5) 14 percent are bloodstream infections. (6) Patients who acquire infections from surgery spend on average an additional 6.5 days hospitalized; (7) are five times more likely to be readmitted after discharge; (8) and are twice as likely to die. (9) As recent as 2016, Johns Hopkins University patient safety experts calculated that medical error is responsible for at least 250,000 deaths per year (the third leading cause of death in the U.S.). 3. Establishment of Office of Patient Safety and Health Care Quality Title IX of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 299 et seq.) is amended— (1) by redesignating part E as part F; (2) in part F, as redesignated— (A) by redesignating sections 941 through 948 as sections 951 through 958, respectively; and (B) in section 958(1), as redesignated, by striking ‘‘941’’ and inserting ‘‘951’’