Requires certain information about the facility and what types of plans and procedures such facility has in place to be provided to prospective maternity patients.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3610
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 1, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
information about the facility to be included in the informational
material provided to prospective maternity patients at all hospitals
and birth centers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is
3 amended and six new paragraphs (n), (o), (p), (q), (r) and (s) are added
4 to read as follows:
5 (m) whether rooming-in is available in the facility, on the basis of
6 twenty-four hours a day or daytime[.];
7 (n) whether the facility conducts safety drills to prepare for obstet-
8 ric emergencies;
9 (o) whether the facility participates in quality improvement initi-
10 atives;
11 (p) whether the facility has an agreement and policy to arrange for
12 emergent transfer of care for critically ill pregnant people/infants to
13 higher levels of care (applicable only for those facilities that are not
14 the designated regional perinatal center or a quaternary or tertiary
15 care center with Level III-IV NICU);
16 (q) whether the facility has a written community needs assessment plan
17 to reduce racial disparities and address community needs;
18 (r) whether the facility offers, upon patient request, an autopsy for
19 stillbirth; and
20 (s) whether the facility offers bereavement support for patients that
21 have suffered a stillbirth or third trimester fetal loss.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
23 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02346-01-3
