Bill Text: NY A06052 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires residential health care facilities to update residents, authorized family members, and guardians of residents of the presence of an infection and to have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for designating a separate cohort area.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-12-07 - approval memo.34 [A06052 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06052-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6052

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 5, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation to requiring
          infection updates and infection control planning in residential health
          care facilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivi-
     2  sion  12  of  section 2803 of the public health law, as added by chapter
     3  114 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (A) to update authorized family  members  and  guardians  of  infected
     5  residents at least once per day and upon a change in a resident's condi-
     6  tion  and  at  least  once a week to update all residents and authorized
     7  families and guardians on the number of infections  and  deaths  at  the
     8  facility,  and  to  update all residents, authorized family members, and
     9  guardians of residents at  the  facility  within  twelve  hours  of  the
    10  detection of the presence of an infection by a resident or staff member,
    11  by  electronic  or such other means as may be selected by each resident,
    12  authorized family member or guardian; and
    13    § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 12  of  section
    14  2803  of  the public health law is amended by adding a new clause (C) to
    15  read as follows:
    16    (C) a plan or procedure designating a separate cohort area  during  an
    17  infectious  disease outbreak in the residential health care facility for
    18  the separation of residents that  are  suspected  of  being  infectious,
    19  including the creation of a designated infectious disease care unit; and
    20    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02906-04-1