Bill Text: NY S03276 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for notification to hospital patients upon intake of reports of hospital-acquired infections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03276 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03276-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3276 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to notifying hospital patients upon intake of reports of hospital-acquired infections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2819 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows: 3 6-a. No later than one hundred eighty days after the issuance of the 4 reports required pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of 5 subdivision five of this section, each general hospital shall be 6 required to notify patients as a component of prebooking, intake and 7 registration of the hospital-acquired infections, that would be required 8 to be reported to the department pursuant to this section, that occurred 9 in the hospital for the prior thirty day period. Such notification shall 10 be updated on a daily basis and shall be accomplished through the 11 conspicuous posting of signs, which are easily understandable by the 12 general public, and shall include directions on how to obtain additional 13 information. To the degree practicable, the format of such signs shall 14 be consistent with the format of the summary table required to be devel- 15 oped pursuant to subdivision six of this section. Upon request the 16 hospital shall provide a patient with an individual copy of the informa- 17 tion contained on such sign. The department through regulation shall 18 establish penalties applicable to the first and subsequent violations of 19 the requirement imposed by this subdivision. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07352-01-9