Bill Text: NY S02185 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals to include in discharge planning for brain insult patients, an evaluation for treatment in a state certified hospital operated acute rehabilitation unit for traumatic brain injury.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02185 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S02185-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2185
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 13, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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 discharge planning
         for patients diagnosed with moderate to severe brain insult
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  2803-i  of  the  public health law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
    3    8-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF  LAW,  THE  COMMIS-
    4  SIONER  SHALL REQUIRE GENERAL HOSPITALS TO INCLUDE IN THE INDIVIDUALIZED
    5  DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE  BRAIN
    6  INSULT,  RESULTING FROM STROKE, SKULL FRACTURE, HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC OR
    7  NON-TRAUMATIC CAUSES, AN EVALUATION FOR TREATMENT IN  A  STATE-CERTIFIED
    8  HOSPITAL-OPERATED ACUTE REHABILITATION UNIT FOR BRAIN INJURY.
    9    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   10  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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