Bill Text: NY A04715 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4715 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to patient discharge information concerning certain premature newborn infants

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to health [A04715 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A04715-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4715
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 5, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. JOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to patient  discharge
         information concerning certain premature newborn infants
         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  2803-s to read as follows:
    3    S 2803-S. PATIENT DISCHARGE INFORMATION. 1. ANY HOSPITAL THAT PROVIDES
    4  BIRTHING SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE WRITTEN, EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL CONTAINING
    5  INFORMATION  ABOUT  THE  POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS, PROPER CARE AND SUPPORT
    6  ASSOCIATED WITH NEWBORN INFANTS WHO ARE  BORN  PREMATURE  AT  LESS  THAN
    7  THIRTY-SEVEN  WEEKS  GESTATIONAL  AGE.  THE  WRITTEN  INFORMATION  SHALL
    8  INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
    9    (A) THE UNIQUE HEALTH ISSUES AFFECTING INFANTS  BORN  PREMATURE,  SUCH
   10  AS:    INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS; NUTRITIONAL CHALLENGES;
   11  INFECTION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE (BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA); VISION AND
   12  HEARING  IMPAIRMENT;  BREATHING  PROBLEMS;  FEEDING;  MAINTAINING   BODY
   13  TEMPERATURE;  JAUNDICE;  HYPERACTIVITY;  INFANT  MORTALITY AND LONG-TERM
   14  COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FINE MOTOR SKILLS, READING, WRITING, MATH-
   15  EMATICS AND SPEAKING;
   16    (B) THE PROPER CARE NEEDS OF PREMATURE INFANTS, DEVELOPMENTAL  SCREEN-
   17  INGS  AND  MONITORING  AND  HEALTHCARE  SERVICES  AVAILABLE TO PREMATURE
   18  INFANTS;
   19    (C) INFECTIOUS DISEASE AWARENESS AND METHODS TO  PREVENT  OR  MINIMIZE
   20  INFECTIONS COMMON TO PREMATURE INFANTS; AND
   21    (D)  COMMUNITY RESOURCES TO ASSIST PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS WITH THE
   22  CARE AND SUPPORT OF PREMATURE INFANTS.
   23    2. SUCH MATERIALS SHALL  BE  WRITTEN  IN  CLEAR  LANGUAGE  TO  EDUCATE
   24  PARENTS  OF PREMATURE INFANTS ACROSS A VARIETY OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUSES
   25  AND SHALL BE UPDATED AT LEAST EVERY TWO YEARS.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   27  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07676-01-9