Bill Text: NY A09611 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for quality assurance for trauma and emergency care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-17 - substituted by s7271 [A09611 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09611-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9611
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 12, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  ensuring  ongoing
         quality  assurance  measures for emergency medical and trauma care and
         autopsy reports on deceased patients treated at hospitals
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 3066 of the public health law, as
    2  added by chapter 449 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    3    4. The department shall develop and periodically revise  a  comprehen-
    4  sive emergency medical and trauma care plan with the advice of the state
    5  emergency medical services council, the state emergency medical advisory
    6  committee  and the state trauma advisory committee, incorporating injury
    7  control programs AND ONGOING QUALITY ASSURANCE MEASURES for  all  compo-
    8  nents of the trauma system involved in trauma care.
    9    S  2.  The section heading of section 4210 of the public health law is
   10  amended and a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:
   11    [Cadavers] DECEASED PERSONS; right to dissect.
   12    2-A. WHERE A PERSON DIES WHILE UNDER CARE OR TREATMENT  AT  A  GENERAL
   13  HOSPITAL  (AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED
   14  ONE OF THIS CHAPTER) OR WHILE RECOVERING FROM SUCH  CARE  OR  TREATMENT,
   15  ANY  AUTOPSY  REPORT  FOR  SUCH  PERSON  SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE, BY THE
   16  CORONER OR MEDICAL EXAMINER UNDER WHOSE  JURISDICTION  THE  AUTOPSY  WAS
   17  PERFORMED, IN A TIMELY MANNER, TO THE HOSPITAL, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ONGO-
   18  ING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF SUCH HOSPITAL, INCLUDING FOR THE PURPOSES
   19  OF  SECTIONS TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE-J AND TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE-K
   20  OF THIS CHAPTER. ALL SUCH REPORTS IN THE POSSESSION OF A HOSPITAL  SHALL
   21  BE  SUBJECT  TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE-M OF
   22  THIS CHAPTER.
   23    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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