Bill Text: NY A08474 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides grants for accredited level two geriatric emergency departments; establishes an age-friendly health system technical assistance center to provide assistance in relation to age-friendly health systems; relates to hospital performance data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-15 - print number 8474c [A08474 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08474-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8474--C 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY December 29, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to grants for geria- tric emergency departments; in relation to establishing a center for technical assistance relating to age-friendly health systems; and in relation to hospital performance data The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "age- 2 friendly health system enhancement act of 2024". 3 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2831 to 4 read as follows: 5 § 2831. Geriatric emergency departments. Subject to an appropriation 6 therefor, the commissioner shall award accredited level two geriatric 7 emergency departments in the state a grant of five hundred thousand 8 dollars per year for three years with the condition that each department 9 grantee shall reach level one status within twenty-four months of 10 receiving the first grant award. 11 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public health law is amended 12 by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows: 13 (w) establish, in conjunction with the office for the aging, a center 14 for technical assistance in relation to age-friendly health systems. 15 Such center shall be a public-private entity and shall utilize outside EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13713-07-4A. 8474--C 2 1 entities including but not limited to the Institute for Healthcare 2 Improvement. 3 § 4. The section heading of section 2995-b of the public health law, 4 as added by chapter 542 of the laws of 2000, is amended and a new subdi- 5 vision 4 is added to read as follows: 6 Hospital [report cards] performance data. 7 4. Special designations. Using criteria developed from data collected 8 pursuant to this section and other criteria, the department shall desig- 9 nate hospitals that are well equipped in terms of expertise and technol- 10 ogy to provide certain types of care including stroke centers, trauma 11 centers, regional perinatal centers, burn centers, sexual assault foren- 12 sic examiner (SAFE) programs and age-friendly designated hospitals. 13 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 14 the implementation of the provisions of section two of this act shall be 15 subject to the appropriation of moneys specifically for the purposes 16 thereof.
