STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
          tals to establish and utilize procedural medical  checklists  for  the
          provision of all intensive care unit medical procedures

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13.  The commissioner shall by rule or regulation require every hospi-
     4  tal to establish, utilize and complete a checklist  for  each  intensive
     5  care  unit  medical  procedure  performed or occurring at such hospital.
     6  Such checklists shall be designed and used for the purposes of  reducing
     7  infections  and  related  illnesses,  improving the health and safety of
     8  patients, and ensuring that the necessary equipment,  supplies,  facili-
     9  ties  and  personnel are available for the conduct of the intensive care
    10  medical procedure.  All such rules and regulations shall be  promulgated
    11  and  implemented within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of
    12  this subdivision.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03531-02-1