Provides for the reporting, to the department of health, of information relating to the birth of premature, low birth weight and high risk infants; also requires the reporting of information relating to hospital admissions of such infants during their first 6 months of life; directs the department of health to develop standardized procedures for the discharge of and follow-up care for such infants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6181
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to premature and high
risk infant information and quality improvement
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 2816-b to read as follows:
3 § 2816-b. Premature and high risk infant information and quality
4 improvement. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the
5 following terms shall have the following meanings:
6 (a) "Premature infant" shall mean any infant born thirty-seven weeks
7 gestational or less.
8 (b) "Low birth weight" shall mean any infant weighing twenty-five
9 hundred grams or less.
10 (c) "High risk infant" shall mean any infant born with a high risk
11 problem or problems, as defined by the department.
12 2. Within ten days after the birth of any premature infant, infant
13 with low birth weight or high risk infant, each general hospital or, in
14 the case of a birth outside a general hospital, the person responsible
15 for delivery shall file written information on such birth in a format
16 determined by the department.
17 3. Within the first six months after the birth of any premature
18 infant, infant with low birth weight or high risk infant, each general
19 hospital shall file written information in a format determined by the
20 department on the admission of such infant to the general hospital
21 including the cause or causes of such admission to the general hospital.
22 4. The department shall submit an annual report commencing on January
23 first, two thousand seventeen to the governor, the temporary president
24 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the
25 senate and the minority leader of the assembly on the status of prema-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ture, low birth weight and high risk infants. The report shall include,
2 but not be limited to:
3 (a) information about the incidence and cause of re-admissions of
4 infants born premature, with low birth weight or high risk within their
5 first six months of life; and
6 (b) recommendations for improvement of premature, low birth weight or
7 high risk infant health outcomes and ensuring continued health quality
8 improvement, including recommendations concerning technological needs to
9 improve monitoring of premature, low birth weight and high risk infants
10 after discharge from a general hospital after birth.
11 5. The department shall develop standardized procedures for hospital
12 discharge and follow-up care for premature, low birth weight and high
13 risk infants and shall ensure that standardized and coordinated proc-
14 esses are followed as such infants leave the general hospital and tran-
15 sition to follow-up care by a health care provider and/or home care
16 services agency. The department shall utilize national evidence-based
17 guidelines, including, but not limited to, from the Centers for Medicare
18 and Medicaid Services' Neonatal Outcomes Improvement Project or the
19 Institute for Healthcare Improvement's national initiative for chil-
20 dren's healthcare quality as well as the annual report as required in
21 subdivision four of this section to establish general hospital discharge
22 and follow-up care procedures.
23 6. The commissioner may promulgate and enforce such rules and regu-
24 lations as he or she deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this
25 section.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
27 it shall have become a law; provided that effective immediately, the
28 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
29 for the implementation of the provisions of this act on its effective
30 date is authorized to be made on or before such effective date.
