Bill Text: NY S01279 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all hospitals to establish, utilize and complete a checklist for each intensive care medical procedure performed in the hospital.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01279 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01279-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1279 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2019 ___________ 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 12 to read as follows: 3 12. 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. LBD01381-01-9
