Includes representation on the New York state palliative care education and training council of social workers and home care; directs such council to examine and make recommendations relating to palliative care education and training at schools of nursing and social work.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9966
IN ASSEMBLY
June 4, 2014
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the palliative
care education and training council; and to direct such council to
examine and make recommendations relating to such training and educa-
tion in nursing and social work schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2807-n of the
2 public health law, as added by section 63-f of part C of chapter 58 of
3 the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) The New York state palliative care education and training council
5 is established in the department as an expert panel in palliative medi-
6 cine, education and training. Its members shall be appointed by the
7 commissioner. The commissioner shall seek recommendations for appoint-
8 ments to such council from New York state-based health care profes-
9 sional, consumer, medical institutional and medical educational leaders.
10 Members of the council shall include: nine representatives of medical
11 schools and hospital organizations; two representatives of medical acad-
12 emies; two patient advocates; individual representatives of an organiza-
13 tion broadly representative of physicians, internal medicine, family
14 physicians, nursing, social work, hospice, home care, neurology, psychi-
15 atry, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, surgery, and the hospital
16 philanthropic community; and the executive director or a member of the
17 governor's taskforce on life and the law and of the New York state coun-
18 cil on graduate medical education. Members shall have expertise in
19 palliative care or pain management. Members shall serve a term of three
20 years with renewable terms. Members shall receive no compensation for
21 their services, but shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses in
22 the performance of their duties.
23 § 2. The palliative care education and training council established
24 pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 2807-n of the
25 public health law shall examine and make recommendations to the commis-
26 sioners of health and education, the chancellor of the state university
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of New York, and the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on
2 health, education and higher education with regard to the need,
3 approaches and resources to provide for palliative care education and
4 training in state certified schools of nursing and social work, as well
5 as in practice settings at the health care provider facility or agency
6 level. In conducting the examination and making the recommendations, the
7 council shall also solicit and consider the input of representatives of
8 such schools of nursing and social work.
9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
