Bill Text: NY S01856 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires every general hospital to have a community advisory board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01856 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01856-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1856 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the New York city health and hospitals corporation act, in relation to hospital community advisory boards The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2803-l of the public health law, as amended by 2 chapter 639 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 2803-l. Community service plans and community advisory boards. 1. 4 The governing body of a [voluntary non-profit] general hospital, in 5 cooperation with the hospital's community advisory board established 6 under this section, must issue an organizational mission statement iden- 7 tifying at a minimum the populations and communities served by the 8 hospital and the hospital's commitment to meeting the health care needs 9 of the community. 10 2. The governing body, in cooperation with the hospital's community 11 advisory board established under this section must at least every three 12 years: 13 (i) review and amend as necessary the hospital mission statement; 14 (ii) solicit the views of the communities served by the hospital on 15 such issues as the hospital's performance and service priorities; 16 (iii) demonstrate the hospital's operational and financial commitment 17 to meeting community health care needs, to provide charity care services 18 and to improve access to health care services by the underserved; and 19 (iv) prepare and make available to the public a statement showing on a 20 combined basis a summary of the financial resources of the hospital and 21 related corporations and the allocation of available resources to hospi- 22 tal purposes including the provision of free or reduced charge services. 23 3. The governing body, in cooperation with the hospital's community 24 advisory board, must at least annually prepare and make available to the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03360-01-9S. 1856 2 1 public an implementation report regarding the hospital's performance in 2 meeting the health care needs of the community, providing charity care 3 services, and improving access to health care services by the under- 4 served. 5 4. The governing body shall file with the commissioner its mission 6 statement, its annual implementation report, and at least every three 7 years a report detailing amendments to the statement and reflecting 8 changes in the hospital's operational and financial commitment to meet- 9 ing the health care needs of the community, providing charity care 10 services, and improving access to health care services by the under- 11 served. Each of these documents shall be made available to the public 12 by the hospital on its website and by the department on its website. 13 5. (i) Every general hospital shall establish a community advisory 14 board to consider and advise the hospital upon matters concerning the 15 development of any plans or programs of the hospital, and may establish 16 rules and regulations with respect to the community advisory board. 17 (ii) The members of the community advisory board shall be represen- 18 tatives of the community served by the hospital. The hospital shall file 19 with the commissioner, and from time to time update, an up-to-date list 20 of the members of the hospital's community advisory board, which shall 21 be made available to the public by the hospital on its website and shall 22 be made available to the public by the department on its website. 23 (iii) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, 24 special or local, no officer or employee of the state or of any civil 25 division thereof, shall be deemed to have forfeited or shall forfeit his 26 office or employment by reason of his acceptance of membership on the 27 community advisory board. No member of the community advisory board 28 shall receive compensation or allowance for services rendered on the 29 community advisory board, except, however, that members of community 30 advisory boards may be reimbursed by the hospital for necessary expenses 31 incurred in relation to service on the community advisory board. 32 § 2. Subdivision 11 of section 4 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the 33 laws of 1969, enacting the New York city health and hospitals corpo- 34 ration act, as amended by chapter 116 of the laws of 1978, is amended to 35 read as follows: 36 11. (i) The corporation shall establish a community advisory board for 37 each of its hospitals to consider and advise the corporation and the 38 hospital upon matters concerning the development of any plans or 39 programs of the corporation, and may establish rules and regulations 40 with respect to such boards. 41 (ii) The members of such advisory boards shall be representatives of 42 the community served by the hospital. The corporation shall file with 43 the commissioner, and from time to time update, an up-to-date list of 44 the members of each hospital's community advisory board, which shall be 45 made available to the public by the hospital on its website and by the 46 department of health on its website. 47 (iii) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, 48 special or local, no officer or employee of the state or of any civil 49 division thereof, shall be deemed to have forfeited or shall forfeit his 50 office or employment by reason of his acceptance of membership on such 51 community advisory board. No member of such board shall receive compen- 52 sation or allowance for services rendered on such board, except, howev- 53 er, that members of community advisory boards may be reimbursed for 54 necessary expenses [up to and including twenty-five dollars] during a 55 calendar month by submitting a personal summary voucher. Each community 56 advisory board established under this subdivision shall serve as theS. 1856 3 1 community advisory board for the respective hospital under section 2 2803-1 of the public health law. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect two hundred seventy days after it 4 shall have become a law. However, prior to that date, the commissioner 5 of health and each general hospital shall take actions reasonably neces- 6 sary to implement this act on that date.
