Includes health care facilities or part of a facility operated or supervised by the department of correctional services or by local correctional facilities within the definition of hospital.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4469
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, AUBRY, PAULIN, PEOPLES-STOKES, MILL-
MAN, ROBINSON, COLTON, STEVENSON, CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. BOYLAND, BRENNAN, CAHILL, CLARK, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DINOWITZ,
GANTT, GLICK, HEASTIE, HOOPER, JACOBS, JAFFEE, KELLNER, MAGEE, MARKEY,
ORTIZ, PERRY, RIVERA, SCARBOROUGH, SCHIMEL, WEISENBERG, WRIGHT -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including health
care facilities or part of a facility operated or supervised by the
department of correctional services or by local correctional facili-
ties within the definition of hospital
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2801 of the public health law, as
2 separately amended by chapters 297 and 416 of the laws of 1983, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. "Hospital" means a facility or institution engaged principally in
5 providing services by or under the supervision of a physician or, in the
6 case of a dental clinic or dental dispensary, of a dentist, for the
7 prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury,
8 deformity or physical condition, including, but not limited to, a gener-
9 al hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center,
10 dental clinic, dental dispensary, rehabilitation center other than a
11 facility used solely for vocational rehabilitation, nursing home, tuber-
12 culosis hospital, chronic disease hospital, maternity hospital, lying-
13 in-asylum, out-patient department, out-patient lodge, dispensary and a
14 laboratory or central service facility serving one or more such insti-
15 tutions, including any such facility or part of a facility operated or
16 supervised by the department of correctional services or by a local
17 correctional facility as defined in subdivision sixteen of section two
18 of the correction law, but the term hospital shall not include an insti-
19 tution, sanitarium or other facility engaged principally in providing
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01589-01-3
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1 services for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of mental disability
2 and which is subject to the powers of visitation, examination,
3 inspection and investigation of the department of mental hygiene except
4 for those distinct parts of such a facility which provide hospital
5 service. The provisions of this article shall not apply to a facility or
6 institution engaged principally in providing services by or under the
7 supervision of the bona fide members and adherents of a recognized reli-
8 gious organization whose teachings include reliance on spiritual means
9 through prayer alone for healing in the practice of the religion of such
10 organization and where services are provided in accordance with those
11 teachings.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
13 law.
