Provides information on where a list of violations and other actions taken against the facility can be found and requires such facilities to inform certain persons on where they can locate the list.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5848
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing informa-
tion on where a list of violations and other actions taken against the
facility can be found
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 13 to read as follows:
3 13. The commissioner shall require each residential health care facil-
4 ity to provide residents and their families with a separate document, as
5 part of an intake application, in no less than twelve-point font, that
6 includes information on how a potential resident and their family
7 members can look up complaints, citations, inspections, enforcement
8 actions, and penalties taken against the facility including the web
9 address for the New York state nursing home profiles website that is
10 maintained by the department and the nursing home compare website main-
11 tained by the United States department of health and human services, if
12 applicable.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06375-01-1
