Bill Text: NY S07765 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of lymphedema information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema and lists which patients are considered high risk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8819B [S07765 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07765-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7765--A
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 21, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to the distribution
          of information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema
          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  2803-v to read as follows:
     3    § 2803-v. Lymphedema information distribution. 1. For the purposes  of
     4  this  section, the term "lymphedema" shall mean an accumulation of fluid
     5  in the interstitial tissue that causes swelling, most often in the  arms
     6  and/or  legs,  and  occasionally  in  other  parts of the body, from any
     7  cause.
     8    2. The commissioner shall design an informational packet  about  lymp-
     9  hedema  and  shall  require  that  every  hospital  or  general hospital
    10  distribute such packet to all patients at high risk of developing  lymp-
    11  hedema.  Patients deemed high risk shall include:
    12    (a) patients who experience any significant injury to soft tissue;
    13    (b)   patients   who  experience  recurrent  or  persistent  bacterial
    14  infections; or
    15    (c) patients who have had  corrective  surgical  procedures  performed
    16  that may have interfered with the lymph drainage by severing local lymp-
    17  hatics  in  a  manner that may jeopardize reconstitution and recovery of
    18  lymph drainage.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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