Relates to antimicrobial resistance prevention and education; requires every general hospital and nursing home to establish and implement an antimicrobial stewardship program and establish and implement training regarding antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention and control.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5847
SPONSOR: Woerner TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to antimicrobial
resistance prevention and education
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to improve patient outcomes by reducing the
spread of infections. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This bill would
require hospitals and nursing homes to establish an antimicrobial
stewardship program and ensure that appropriate personnel receive anti-
microbial resistance training.
JUSTIFICATION:
The goal of antimicrobial stewardship programs is to optimize antibiotic
prescribing and avoid antimicrobial resistance in patients. The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all hospitals
and nursing homes implement adopt these programs, which will help to
reduce adverse events, prevent emergence of resistance, and lead to
better patient outcomes.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Ninety days succeeding enactment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5847
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to antimicrobial
resistance prevention and education
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 2803-z to read as follows:
3 § 2803-z. Antimicrobial resistance prevention and education. 1. Every
4 general hospital and nursing home shall establish and implement an anti-
5 microbial stewardship program that meets or exceeds federal Medicare and
6 Medicaid conditions of participation for antimicrobial stewardship
7 programs in health care facilities. Additionally, such program shall
8 incorporate an ongoing process to measure the impact of the program,
9 including review, at least annually, of antimicrobial utilization data
10 with development of response plans for high or increasing utilization.
11 2. Every general hospital and nursing home shall establish and imple-
12 ment training regarding antimicrobial resistance and infection
13 prevention and control, or ensure that such training has taken place, in
14 addition to or within existing infection control training programs, for
15 all individuals licensed or certified pursuant to title eight of the
16 education law and who are required to complete coursework or training
17 regarding infection control pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine
18 of this chapter or section sixty-five hundred five-b of the education
19 law.
20 3. The commissioner shall make such rules and regulations as may be
21 necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this section.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
23 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
24 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
25 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
26 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06471-01-1
