Bill Text: NY A03839 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the department of health take certain actions for the purpose of supporting home care and community based sepsis prevention, screening, intervention and education.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-6)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-20 - VETOED MEMO.257 [A03839 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03839-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3839 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, TAYLOR, DICKENS, ARROYO, ENGLEBRIGHT, RIVERA, D'URSO, GALEF, COOK, SEAWRIGHT, BICHOTTE, CAHILL, ORTIZ, STERN, LAWRENCE, ASHBY, ABBATE, CROUCH, NIOU, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to home care and community based sepsis prevention, screening, intervention and educa- tion 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 3620-a to read as follows: 3 § 3620-a. Sepsis. 1. The department may provide support for the 4 following objectives and activities to promote community based sepsis 5 prevention, screening, intervention and education in the state, which 6 may include, within available funds and upon the approval of the state 7 director of the budget, grants or supplementation of reimbursement rates 8 to providers. Such supported objectives and activities may include, but 9 are not limited to, on a voluntary home care agency basis: 10 (a) home care agency integration into electronic health records 11 systems of a standardized sepsis screening and intervention tool for 12 home care that meets adopted industry standards and synchronizes to 13 sepsis criteria utilized in hospitals according to departmental protocol 14 requirements for hospitals; 15 (b) timely and synchronized exchange of health information on behalf 16 of patients meeting or suspected to meet sepsis criteria, with such 17 exchange between home care agencies integrating the standardized sepsis 18 tool, and emergency medical services providers, hospitals, patients' 19 primary care practitioners, and other clinical partners, as applicable; 20 (c) establishment and implementation of sepsis collaboratives under 21 the hospital-home care-physician collaboration program under section 22 twenty-eight hundred five-x of this chapter, the purpose of which shall EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00721-01-9A. 3839 2 1 be to pilot test the effectiveness of collaboratives in promoting the 2 goals of this section, as well as to pilot the development of clinical 3 pathways and interdisciplinary care plans for effective care transition, 4 post-hospital discharge care, and subsequent sepsis prevention and read- 5 mission avoidance for sepsis survivors; 6 (d) home care agency sepsis education and training of home health 7 aides, personal care aides, and family caregivers; 8 (e) community outreach and public and provider education conducted by 9 home care agencies, and by home care in conjunction with continuum part- 10 ners, including hospitals, physicians, emergency medical services, 11 health plans, nursing homes and others, as well as with state and 12 national sepsis public education organizations, including the Rory 13 Staunton Foundation for Sepsis Prevention and Sepsis Alliance. The 14 purpose of such education shall be to foster directly, and in partner- 15 ship with providers, an effective sepsis response across the continuum 16 of care, as well as increased public awareness and education about 17 sepsis and sepsis prevention. 18 2. The department shall issue guidance to home care and other applica- 19 ble providers on the implementation of this section. 20 § 2. The commissioner of health shall, within eighteen months of the 21 effective date of this act, provide information to the legislature and 22 governor on the activities supported by and outcomes achieved by this 23 act in relation to sepsis awareness, prevention, intervention and miti- 24 gation. 25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately the 26 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary 27 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized 28 to be made on or before such date.