Bill Text: NY A11078 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the department of health take certain actions for the purpose of supporting home care and community based sepsis prevention, screening, intervention and education.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-04 - referred to health [A11078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11078-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11078
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 4, 2018
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McDonald) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health law in relation to home care and
          community based sepsis prevention, screening, intervention and  educa-
          tion
          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  3620-a to read as follows:
     3    §  3620-a.  Sepsis.  1.  The  department  may  provide support for the
     4  following objectives and activities to promote  community  based  sepsis
     5  prevention,  screening,  intervention  and education in the state, which
     6  may include, within available funds and upon the approval of  the  state
     7  director of the budget, grants or supplementation of reimbursement rates
     8  to  providers. Such supported objectives and activities may include, but
     9  are not limited to, on a voluntary home care agency basis:
    10    (a) home  care  agency  integration  into  electronic  health  records
    11  systems  of  a  standardized  sepsis screening and intervention tool for
    12  home care that meets adopted  industry  standards  and  synchronizes  to
    13  sepsis criteria utilized in hospitals according to departmental protocol
    14  requirements for hospitals;
    15    (b)  timely  and synchronized exchange of health information on behalf
    16  of patients meeting or suspected to  meet  sepsis  criteria,  with  such
    17  exchange  between home care agencies integrating the standardized sepsis
    18  tool, and emergency medical  services  providers,  hospitals,  patients'
    19  primary care practitioners, and other clinical partners, as applicable;
    20    (c)  establishment  and  implementation of sepsis collaboratives under
    21  the hospital-home care-physician  collaboration  program  under  section
    22  twenty-eight  hundred five-x of this chapter, the purpose of which shall
    23  be to pilot test the effectiveness of collaboratives  in  promoting  the
    24  goals  of  this section, as well as to pilot the development of clinical
    25  pathways and interdisciplinary care plans for effective care transition,
    26  post-hospital discharge care, and subsequent sepsis prevention and read-
    27  mission avoidance for sepsis survivors;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (d) home care agency sepsis education  and  training  of  home  health
     2  aides, personal care aides, and family caregivers;
     3    (e)  community outreach and public and provider education conducted by
     4  home care agencies, and by home care in conjunction with continuum part-
     5  ners,  including  hospitals,  physicians,  emergency  medical  services,
     6  health  plans,  nursing  homes  and  others,  as  well as with state and
     7  national sepsis  public  education  organizations,  including  the  Rory
     8  Staunton  Foundation  for  Sepsis  Prevention  and  Sepsis Alliance. The
     9  purpose of such education shall be to foster directly, and  in  partner-
    10  ship  with  providers, an effective sepsis response across the continuum
    11  of care, as well as  increased  public  awareness  and  education  about
    12  sepsis and sepsis prevention.
    13    2. The department shall issue guidance to home care and other applica-
    14  ble providers on the implementation of this section.
    15    §  2.  The commissioner shall, within eighteen months of the effective
    16  date of this act, provide information to the legislature and governor on
    17  the activities supported  by  and  outcomes  achieved  by  this  act  in
    18  relation to sepsis awareness, prevention, intervention and mitigation.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.