Bill Text: NY S08729 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Includes statistics on childbirth complications, fetal losses, other injuries and other maternity outcomes in information for maternity patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-10 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08729 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08729-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8729

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including  statis-
          tics  on childbirth complications, fetal losses, and other injuries in
          information leaflets for maternity patients

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 62 of the  laws  of  1996  and  paragraph  (m)  as
     3  amended  by  chapter  431  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    2. Such leaflet shall also include statistics relating to  the  annual
     6  percentage  of maternity related procedures performed, maternal outcomes
     7  and maternal deaths at such hospital or birth center, as provided by the
     8  commissioner, including but not limited to the following:
     9    (a) the annual number and percentage of total  deaths  resulting  from
    10  complications  during  childbirth, for the period between childbirth and
    11  six weeks after delivery, and the top six complications  from  pregnancy
    12  and  delivery that result in such deaths broken down by the age and race
    13  of the mother;
    14    (b) the annual number of third trimester fetal losses and  stillbirths
    15  occurring the hospital or birth center;
    16    (c) the annual number and percentage of hemorrhages and injuries moth-
    17  ers  sustain related to childbirth including damage to tissue and organs
    18  during cesarean birth, third and fourth degree tearing, broken  down  by
    19  the age and race of the mother;
    20    (d)  the  annual rate of cesarean sections, primary, repeat and total,
    21  performed at such facility;
    22    [(b)] (e) the  annual  percentage  of  women  with  previous  cesarean
    23  sections who have had a subsequent successful vaginal birth;
    24    [(c)] (f) the annual percentage of deliveries by midwives;
    25    [(d)]  (g)  the annual percentage of births utilizing electronic fetal
    26  monitoring listed on the basis of external and internal;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16923-02-0

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     1    [(e)](h) the annual percentage of births utilizing forceps, listed  on
     2  the basis of low forceps delivery and mid forceps delivery;
     3    [(f)] (i) the annual percentage of breech births delivered vaginally;
     4    [(g)] (j) the annual percentage of births utilizing analgesia;
     5    [(h)] (k) the annual percentage of births utilizing anesthesia includ-
     6  ing  general,  spinal, epidural, and paracervical listed on the basis of
     7  vaginal and cesarean births;
     8    [(i)] (l) the annual  percentage  of  births  utilizing  induction  of
     9  labor;
    10    [(j)]  (m)  the  annual percentage of births utilizing augmentation of
    11  labor;
    12    [(k)] (n) the annual percentage of vaginal births utilizing  episioto-
    13  mies;
    14    [(l)]  (o) whether birthing rooms are available for use in the facili-
    15  ty;
    16    [(m)] (p) whether rooming-in is available  in  the  facility,  on  the
    17  basis of twenty-four hours a day or daytime.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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