S02514 Summary:

BILL NOS02514
 
SAME ASSAME AS A04908
 
SPONSORGIANARIS
 
COSPNSROPPENHEIMER
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S2803, Pub Health L
 
Requires all hospitals to establish, utilize and complete a checklist for each intensive care medical procedure performed in the hospital.
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S02514 Actions:

BILL NOS02514
 
01/24/2011REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/04/2012REFERRED TO HEALTH
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S02514 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S02514 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2514
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 24, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- 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  requiring  hospi-
          tals  to  establish  and utilize procedural medical checklists for the
          provision of all intensive care unit medical procedures
 

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. The commissioner shall by rule or regulation require every  hospi-
     4  tal  to  establish,  utilize and complete a checklist for each intensive
     5  care unit medical procedure performed or  occurring  at  such  hospital.
     6  Such  checklists shall be designed and used for the purposes of reducing
     7  infections and related illnesses, improving the  health  and  safety  of
     8  patients,  and  ensuring that the necessary equipment, supplies, facili-
     9  ties and personnel are available for the conduct of the  intensive  care

    10  medical  procedure.  All such rules and regulations shall be promulgated
    11  and implemented within one hundred eighty days of the effective date  of
    12  this subdivision.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05779-01-1
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