Bill Text: NJ S1183 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DHSS to post on website information concerning hospital emergency department staffing and services for pediatric patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S1183 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1183-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1183

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 8, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  DIANE B. ALLEN

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOH to post on website information concerning hospital emergency department staffing and services for pediatric patients.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning pediatric emergency medicine and supplementing P.L.1992, c.96 (C.26:2K-48 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a. The Department of Health shall post the following information on its Internet website:

     (1)   a list of all designated children's hospitals in the State;

     (2)   a list of all general hospitals in the State that maintain a separate pediatric emergency department and, by hospital, the hours of operation of each pediatric emergency department;

     (3)   by hospital, a list of pediatric subspecialties, if any, that are available at each general hospital in the State; and

     (4)   by hospital, the board certification of each emergency department physician who is employed at a general hospital in the State.

     b.    A hospital shall annually provide the information required in subsection a. of this section to the department in a form and manner specified by the Commissioner of Health.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the 60th day following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that the Department of Health Services (DOH) post the following information on its Internet website:

     (1)   a list of all designated children's hospitals in the State;

     (2)   a list of all general hospitals in the State that maintain a separate pediatric emergency department and, by hospital, the hours of operation of each pediatric emergency department;

     (3)   by hospital, a list of pediatric subspecialties, if any, that are available at each general hospital in the State; and

     (4)   by hospital, the board certification of each emergency department physician who is employed at a general hospital in the State.

     The bill further requires that hospitals report this information annually to DOH.