Bill Text: NY A08368 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the Take A Look medical and dental workforce employment tour pilot program which is a campaign to promote and market the health care workforce employment and career opportunities in the following economic development regions: central, north country, western, finger lakes, capital region, mohawk and southern tier.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-4)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A08368 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08368-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8368

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, ANGELINO, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER,
          GRAY,  DeSTEFANO,  LUPARDO,  PAULIN  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  establishing  the
          Take  A  Look  medical  and  dental  workforce  employment  tour pilot
          program; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon  expira-
          tion thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Article 29-A of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new title 1-B to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE 1-B
     4    TAKE A LOOK MEDICAL AND DENTAL WORKFORCE EMPLOYMENT TOUR PILOT PROGRAM
     5  Section 2958-b. Take A Look medical and dental workforce employment tour
     6                    pilot program.
     7    §  2958-b.  Take  A  Look medical and dental workforce employment tour
     8  pilot program. 1. The commissioner  shall,  within  monies  appropriated
     9  therefor, establish the Take A Look medical and dental workforce employ-
    10  ment  pilot  program  to  be  implemented by an association representing
    11  upstate medical and/or  dental  facilities  to  conduct  a  campaign  to
    12  promote  and  market  the  health  care  workforce employment and career
    13  opportunities in the following economic  development  regions:  central,
    14  north  country, western, finger lakes, capital region, mohawk and south-
    15  ern tier where there is a critical  shortage  of  health  care  workers,
    16  including  physicians and dentists, which impedes access to vital health
    17  care services and impairs the economic  status  of  the  communities  in
    18  these regions.
    19    2.  a.  Funds  shall  be made available for a multimedia campaign that
    20  will encourage residents of the regions identified in subdivision one of
    21  this section to train for and enter the health workforce in such identi-
    22  fied regions, to attract individuals undergoing training in health  care

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13721-01-3

        A. 8368                             2

     1  professional  educational  programs including graduate medical education
     2  training and graduate dental education training in other regions of  New
     3  York state and other states to pursue career opportunities in such iden-
     4  tified  regions,  and to attract and encourage health care professionals
     5  from other states to pursue  career  opportunities  in  such  identified
     6  regions.
     7    b. Funding shall be utilized to promote and educate individuals on the
     8  availability of funding under the New York state doctors across New York
     9  program,  the  primary  care service corps, the regents loan forgiveness
    10  program, and the national health service corps.
    11    c. Funding shall be utilized to conduct "Take  A  Look"  tours  within
    12  such identified economic development regions. "Take A Look" tours aim to
    13  expose  undergraduate  medical and dental students, physician and dental
    14  residents, physician assistants,  nurse  practitioners,  nurse  anesthe-
    15  tists,  and nurse midwives in training across the state and from outside
    16  the state to practice opportunities in  upstate  New  York  communities.
    17  Each  tour  itinerary  provides  opportunities  for residents to "take a
    18  look" and learn about upstate New York  hospitals,  medical  and  dental
    19  staffs,  communities  and  cultures through hospital, clinic, physician,
    20  and dental office visits.
    21    3. a. The implementing  association  shall  provide  annually,  on  or
    22  before  the first day of November, an analysis of the shortage of health
    23  care workers in the economic development regions identified in  subdivi-
    24  sion  one  of this section, an accounting of the multimedia campaign and
    25  the impact of the "Take A Look" tours on such specified economic  devel-
    26  opment  regions. Such report shall include at least the following infor-
    27  mation:
    28    (i) the number of individuals who participated in "Take A Look"  tours
    29  over the previous twelve months;
    30    (ii)  the number of "Take A Look" tour participants who began practic-
    31  ing in one of the economic development regions identified in subdivision
    32  one of this section within twelve months  following  tour  participation
    33  and the location of such practice;
    34    (iii)  the  number  of  patients  served  in each economic development
    35  region by such participants within the twelve months following the start
    36  of their practice;
    37    (iv) a description of the impact of the  program  on  the  communities
    38  where such participants began practicing; and
    39    (v)  such other information as the commissioner may deem necessary and
    40  appropriate.
    41    b. Such report shall be provided to the chairs of the  central,  north
    42  country, western, finger lakes, capital region, mohawk and southern tier
    43  regional  economic  development councils, the temporary president of the
    44  senate, the speaker of the assembly and the commissioner  and  shall  be
    45  made  publicly  available on the department's website and the website of
    46  the department of economic development.
    47    4. To the extent of funds appropriated  therefor,  medical  assistance
    48  funds,  including  any funding or shared savings as may become available
    49  through federal waivers or otherwise under titles eighteen and  nineteen
    50  of  the  federal  social  security  act, may be used for expenditures in
    51  support of the Take A Look medical and dental workforce employment pilot
    52  program.
    53    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    54  deemed repealed three years after such date.
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