Relates to providing correctional health care services; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to provide public health care programs for inmates; and establishes requirements for the correctional health care system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11098
IN ASSEMBLY
June 5, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. O'Donnell)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing correction-
al health care services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 140-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 140-a. Correctional health care services. The department shall
4 provide public health care programs for inmates as well as clinical
5 services. Health care services must meet the professional standards of
6 the community and must be performed by appropriately trained and creden-
7 tialed providers who are properly supervised and who use clinical proto-
8 cols. These services should meet public health goals and objectives set
9 by the department in collaboration with the department of health. The
10 commissioner or his or her designee shall act as a liaison with local
11 correctional facilities and the department of health to protect and
12 promote the health of the inmate population as well as the community at
13 large. The correctional health care system shall:
14 1. maintain the capacity to address individual clinical needs, carry
15 out department-wide functions and develop and implement public health
16 programs for the inmate population;
17 2. collaborate with the department of health, social services agencies
18 and relevant non-profit organizations to establish and maintain public
19 health programs within the department to ensure that the clinical and
20 public health needs of the inmate population are met;
21 3. include preventative health maintenance schedules, electronic
22 records, surveillance data, and access to relevant public health regis-
23 tries, including access to adult vaccinations, in correctional health
24 information systems;
25 4. develop and implement health promotion programs according to the
26 needs of the inmate population; and
27 5. include correctional services and programs in department of health
28 public health initiatives.
29 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
30 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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