Bill Text: NY A01416 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the reporting, to the department of health, of information relating to the birth of premature, low birth weight and high risk infants; also requires the reporting of information relating to hospital admissions of such infants during their first 6 months of life; directs the department of health to develop standardized procedures for the discharge of and follow-up care for such infants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A01416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01416-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1416
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to premature and high
          risk infant information and quality improvement
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2816-b to read as follows:
     3    § 2816-b. Premature and  high  risk  infant  information  and  quality
     4  improvement.  1.  Definitions.  For  the  purpose  of  this section, the
     5  following terms shall have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "Premature infant" shall mean any infant born  thirty-seven  weeks
     7  gestational or less.
     8    (b)  "Low  birth  weight"  shall  mean any infant weighing twenty-five
     9  hundred grams or less.
    10    (c) "High risk infant" shall mean any infant born  with  a  high  risk
    11  problem or problems, as defined by the department.
    12    2.  Within  ten  days  after the birth of any premature infant, infant
    13  with low birth weight or high risk infant, each general hospital or,  in
    14  the  case  of a birth outside a general hospital, the person responsible
    15  for delivery shall file written information on such birth  in  a  format
    16  determined by the department.
    17    3.  Within  the  first  six  months  after  the birth of any premature
    18  infant, infant with low birth weight or high risk infant,  each  general
    19  hospital  shall  file  written information in a format determined by the
    20  department on the admission of  such  infant  to  the  general  hospital
    21  including the cause or causes of such admission to the general hospital.
    22    4.  The department shall submit an annual report commencing on January
    23  first, two thousand nineteen to the governor, the temporary president of
    24  the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  the  minority  leader  of  the
    25  senate  and  the minority leader of the assembly on the status of prema-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02436-01-7
        A. 1416                             2
     1  ture, low birth weight and high risk infants. The report shall  include,
     2  but not be limited to:
     3    (a)  information  about  the  incidence  and cause of re-admissions of
     4  infants born premature, with low birth weight or high risk within  their
     5  first six months of life; and
     6    (b)  recommendations for improvement of premature, low birth weight or
     7  high risk infant health outcomes and ensuring continued  health  quality
     8  improvement, including recommendations concerning technological needs to
     9  improve  monitoring of premature, low birth weight and high risk infants
    10  after discharge from a general hospital after birth.
    11    5. The department shall develop standardized procedures  for  hospital
    12  discharge  and  follow-up  care for premature, low birth weight and high
    13  risk infants and shall ensure that standardized  and  coordinated  proc-
    14  esses  are followed as such infants leave the general hospital and tran-
    15  sition to follow-up care by a health  care  provider  and/or  home  care
    16  services  agency.  The  department shall utilize national evidence-based
    17  guidelines, including, but not limited to, from the Centers for Medicare
    18  and Medicaid Services' Neonatal  Outcomes  Improvement  Project  or  the
    19  Institute  for  Healthcare  Improvement's  national initiative for chil-
    20  dren's healthcare quality as well as the annual report  as  required  in
    21  subdivision four of this section to establish general hospital discharge
    22  and follow-up care procedures.
    23    6.  The  commissioner  may promulgate and enforce such rules and regu-
    24  lations as he or she deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of  this
    25  section.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    27  it  shall  have  become  a law; provided that effective immediately, the
    28  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    29  for  the  implementation  of the provisions of this act on its effective
    30  date are authorized to be made on or before such effective date.