Bill Text: NY S05534 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes hospice residences to care for up to 16 patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-11-13 - SIGNED CHAP.512 [S05534 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5534
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 16, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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  authorizing
         hospice residences to care for up to 16 patients
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public  health  law,
    2  as  amended  by  chapter  154 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is  resi-
    5  dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose
    6  of  providing  more  than two hospice patients but not more than [eight]
    7  SIXTEEN hospice patients with hospice care, which may include UP TO FOUR
    8  dually certified hospice in-patient beds PER EACH SIXTEEN BED RESIDENCE.
    9    S 2.   Subdivision 1 of section 4014 of  the  public  health  law,  as
   10  amended  by  chapter  410  of  the  laws  of 2007, is amended to read as
   11  follows:
   12    1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish a hospice  resi-
   13  dence  pilot program. Such program, subject to the rules and regulations
   14  of the commissioner, shall authorize the operation of not more than  ten
   15  hospice residences operated for the purpose of providing[, notwithstand-
   16  ing  the provisions of subdivision two-b of section four thousand two of
   17  this article,] more than two hospice patients but not more than  sixteen
   18  hospice  patients  with  hospice care AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWO-B OF
   19  SECTION FOUR THOUSAND TWO OF THIS ARTICLE.  The locations of the hospice
   20  residence pilot program shall be geographically disbursed throughout the
   21  state and approved by the commissioner. To the extent that patients  may
   22  access  hospital  or  skilled  nursing home care, the care plan for such
   23  patients shall provide for such care.
   24    S 3.   This act shall take  effect  immediately;  provided,  that  the
   25  amendments  to  sections  4002 and 4014 of the public health law made by
   26  sections one and two of this  act  shall  apply  to  hospice  residences
   27  established  prior  to  the  effective date of this act as well as those
   28  created thereafter.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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