| BILL NO | A05225A |
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| SAME AS | SAME AS S07294, SAME AS S05407-A
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| SPONSOR | Espaillat (MS) |
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| COSPNSR | Colton, Gottfried, Lopez V, Towns, Rosenthal |
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| MLTSPNSR | Alfano, Aubry, Barra, Bing, Cook, Glick, Hooper, Jacobs, Magnarelli, Miller J, Ortiz, Perry,
Robinson |
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| Add S2803-s, Pub Health L |
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| Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that transactions of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary language; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits. |
