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
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