Bill Text: NY S05566 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to creating NYCHA-based health centers to provide basic health services for residents living on NYCHA campuses, specifically specialty care and testing for lead poisoning and mold exposure and specifically respiratory related illnesses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05566 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05566-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5566

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  creating
          NYCHA-based health centers

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  411 to read as follows:
     3    §  411. NYCHA-based health centers.  1. The department shall establish
     4  health centers on campuses for residents  living  on  such  campuses  no
     5  later  than  one  hundred  eighty  days after the effective date of this
     6  section.
     7    2. For purposes of this section:
     8    (a) "campus" shall refer to an individual development owned by the New
     9  York city housing authority;
    10    (b) "health center" shall mean an area located within a campus  desig-
    11  nated  by the New York city housing authority for the purpose of provid-
    12  ing basic health services, such area shall be located on the first floor
    13  in a designated community space accessible to all; and
    14    (c) "basic health services" shall mean primary care  and  preventative
    15  health  services,  including prenatal care; screenings for vision, hear-
    16  ing, asthma, tuberculosis and other medical conditions as determined  by
    17  the  commissioner;  medical  care and treatment for illnesses, including
    18  the prescribing of medication; and specialty care and testing  for  lead
    19  poisoning  and  mold  exposure,  and  specifically  respiratory  related
    20  illnesses.
    21    3. The department shall provide the resources necessary  to  establish
    22  such  health centers.   Such resources shall include, but not be limited
    23  to, materials used to perform screenings  and  diagnostic  blood  tests,
    24  materials  used  to  maintain  a  safe  and  sanitary health center, and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01130-01-3
        S. 5566                             2

     1  personnel to provide primary health care  services  and  assist  in  the
     2  administration of such health centers.
     3    4.  The  department  shall  establish  at least one health center at a
     4  campus within each borough in the city of New York. The location of such
     5  health centers shall be based on the need and reported  health  dispari-
     6  ties within each borough.
     7    5. The department shall allocate such resources in a manner determined
     8  by the department for the purposes of this section.
     9    6.  The  department  shall  evaluate  the effectiveness of such health
    10  centers and prepare a report on the performance of such health  centers,
    11  the  manner  in which each health center's resources were allocated, the
    12  number of primary care visits, the number of persons tested for lead and
    13  respiratory illnesses, the frequency of such testing and the  number  of
    14  persons  testing positively for lead poisoning and/or mold exposure, and
    15  the health outcomes and improvements associated with  such  individuals.
    16  Such  performance  report shall be delivered to the governor, the tempo-
    17  rary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly by December
    18  first, two thousand twenty-five, and every year thereafter.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.