Bill Text: NY S02553 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires every general hospital to have a community advisory board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02553 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02553-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2553

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS -- read twice and
          ordered printed, 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.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    3.  The  governing  body, in cooperation with the hospital's community
     2  advisory board, must at least annually prepare and make available to the
     3  public an implementation report regarding the hospital's performance  in
     4  meeting  the  health care needs of the community, providing charity care
     5  services,  and  improving  access  to health care services by the under-
     6  served.
     7    4.  The governing body shall file with the  commissioner  its  mission
     8  statement,  its  annual  implementation report, and at least every three
     9  years a report detailing amendments  to  the  statement  and  reflecting
    10  changes  in the hospital's operational and financial commitment to meet-
    11  ing the health care needs  of  the  community,  providing  charity  care
    12  services,  and  improving  access  to health care services by the under-
    13  served.  Each of these documents shall be made available to  the  public
    14  by the hospital on its website and by the department on its website.
    15    5.  (i)  Every  general  hospital shall establish a community advisory
    16  board to consider and advise the hospital upon  matters  concerning  the
    17  development  of any plans or programs of the hospital, and may establish
    18  rules and regulations with respect to the community advisory board.
    19    (ii) The members of the community advisory board  shall  be  represen-
    20  tatives of the community served by the hospital. The hospital shall file
    21  with  the commissioner, and from time to time update, an up-to-date list
    22  of the members of the hospital's community advisory board,  which  shall
    23  be made available to the public by the hospital on its website and shall
    24  be made available to the public by the department on its website.
    25    (iii)  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of law, general,
    26  special or local, no officer or employee of the state or  of  any  civil
    27  division thereof, shall be deemed to have forfeited or shall forfeit his
    28  office  or  employment  by reason of his acceptance of membership on the
    29  community advisory board. No member  of  the  community  advisory  board
    30  shall  receive  compensation  or  allowance for services rendered on the
    31  community advisory board, except, however,  that  members  of  community
    32  advisory boards may be reimbursed by the hospital for necessary expenses
    33  incurred in relation to service on the community advisory board.
    34    §  2.  Subdivision 11 of section 4 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the
    35  laws of 1969, enacting the New York city  health  and  hospitals  corpo-
    36  ration act, as amended by chapter 116 of the laws of 1978, is amended to
    37  read as follows:
    38    11. (i) The corporation shall establish a community advisory board for
    39  each  of  its  hospitals  to consider and advise the corporation and the
    40  hospital upon  matters  concerning  the  development  of  any  plans  or
    41  programs  of  the  corporation,  and may establish rules and regulations
    42  with respect to such boards.
    43    (ii) The members of such advisory boards shall be  representatives  of
    44  the  community  served  by the hospital. The corporation shall file with
    45  the commissioner, and from time to time update, an  up-to-date  list  of
    46  the  members of each hospital's community advisory board, which shall be
    47  made available to the public by the hospital on its website and  by  the
    48  department of health on its website.
    49    (iii)  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of law, general,
    50  special or local, no officer or employee of the state or  of  any  civil
    51  division thereof, shall be deemed to have forfeited or shall forfeit his
    52  office  or  employment by reason of his acceptance of membership on such
    53  community advisory board.  No member of such board shall receive compen-
    54  sation or allowance for services rendered on such board, except,  howev-
    55  er,  that  members  of  community  advisory boards may be reimbursed for
    56  necessary expenses [up to and including twenty-five  dollars]  during  a
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     1  calendar  month by submitting a personal summary voucher. Each community
     2  advisory board established under this subdivision  shall  serve  as  the
     3  community  advisory  board  for  the  respective  hospital under section
     4  2803-1 of the public health law.
     5    §  3.  This  act  shall  take effect two hundred seventy days after it
     6  shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
     7  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
     8  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
     9  completed on or before such effective date.