Bill Text: NY A05576 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain information about the facility and what types of plans and procedures such facility has in place to be provided to prospective maternity patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-22 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A05576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05576-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5576

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
          information about the facility to be  included  in  the  informational
          material  provided  to prospective maternity patients at all hospitals
          and birth centers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.    Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 431 of the  laws  of  2004,  is
     3  amended and six new paragraphs (n), (o), (p), (q), (r) and (s) are added
     4  to read as follows:
     5    (m)  whether  rooming-in is available in the facility, on the basis of
     6  twenty-four hours a day or daytime[.];
     7    (n) whether the facility conducts safety drills to prepare for obstet-
     8  ric emergencies;
     9    (o) whether the facility participates in  quality  improvement  initi-
    10  atives;
    11    (p)  whether  the  facility has an agreement and policy to arrange for
    12  emergent transfer of care for critically ill pregnant people/infants  to
    13  higher levels of care (applicable only for those facilities that are not
    14  the  designated  regional  perinatal  center or a quaternary or tertiary
    15  care center with Level III-IV NICU);
    16    (q) whether the facility has a written community needs assessment plan
    17  to reduce racial disparities and address community needs;
    18    (r) whether the facility offers, upon patient request, an autopsy  for
    19  stillbirth; and
    20    (s)  whether the facility offers bereavement support for patients that
    21  have suffered a stillbirth or third trimester fetal loss.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02346-01-3