Bill Text: NY A04640 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to creating NYCHA-based health centers to provide basic health services for residents living on NYCHA campuses, specifically specialty care and testing for lead poisoning and mold exposure and specifically respiratory related illnesses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A04640 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04640-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4640
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WRIGHT,  BARRON,  MOSLEY, EPSTEIN, WILLIAMS,
          ARROYO, HYNDMAN, CRESPO, LAVINE, L. ROSENTHAL, BLAKE -- read once  and
          referred to the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to creating
          NYCHA-based health centers
          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  411 to read as follows:
     3    § 411. NYCHA-based health centers.  1. The department shall  establish
     4  health centers on campuses for residents living on such campuses.
     5    2. For purposes of this section:
     6    (a) "campus" shall refer to an individual development owned by the New
     7  York city housing authority;
     8    (b)  "health center" shall mean an area located within a campus desig-
     9  nated by the New York city housing authority for the purpose of  provid-
    10  ing basic health services, such area shall be located on the first floor
    11  in a designated community space accessible to all; and
    12    (c)  "basic  health services" shall mean primary care and preventative
    13  health services, including prenatal care; screenings for  vision,  hear-
    14  ing,  asthma, tuberculosis and other medical conditions as determined by
    15  the commissioner; medical care and treatment  for  illnesses,  including
    16  the  prescribing  of medication; and specialty care and testing for lead
    17  poisoning  and  mold  exposure,  and  specifically  respiratory  related
    18  illnesses.
    19    3.  The  department shall provide the resources necessary to establish
    20  such health centers.  Such resources shall include, but not  be  limited
    21  to,  materials  used  to  perform screenings and diagnostic blood tests,
    22  materials used to maintain  a  safe  and  sanitary  health  center,  and
    23  personnel  to  provide  primary  health  care services and assist in the
    24  administration of such health centers.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00628-01-9
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     1    4. The department shall establish at least  one  health  center  at  a
     2  campus within each borough in the city of New York. The location of such
     3  health  centers  shall be based on the need and reported health dispari-
     4  ties within each borough.
     5    5. The department shall allocate such resources in a manner determined
     6  by the department for the purposes of this section.
     7    6.  The  department  shall  evaluate  the effectiveness of such health
     8  centers and prepare a report on the performance of such health  centers,
     9  the  manner  in which each health center's resources were allocated, the
    10  number of primary care visits, the number of persons tested for lead and
    11  respiratory illnesses, the frequency of such testing and the  number  of
    12  persons  testing positively for lead poisoning and/or mold exposure, and
    13  the health outcomes and improvements associated with  such  individuals.
    14  Such  performance  report shall be delivered to the governor, the tempo-
    15  rary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly by December
    16  first, two thousand twenty-one, and every year thereafter.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that such health
    18  centers, as added by section one of this act, shall  be  established  by
    19  the  department  of  health  no later than the one hundred eightieth day
    20  after it shall have become a law.