Requires a large-print version, or at the patient's request an audio recording of the discharge plan and preadmission information to be provided to all blind and visually impaired patients according to the preference of such patient or such patient's representative.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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328--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. AVELLA, ADDABBO, GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing all
blind and visually impaired patients with a large print version or,
upon request of the patient, with an audio recording of the discharge
plan and preadmission information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 2803-i of the public health law is
2 renumbered subdivision 10 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as
3 follows:
4 9. Upon discharge of a blind or visually impaired patient, a hospital
5 shall offer to provide the patient's discharge plan in a large print
6 version or, at the patient's or patient's representative's request, as
7 an audio recording, to be made available to such patient or such
8 patient's representative on compact disc or other medium as the hospital
9 may offer, or as an electronically transmitted digital file, in addition
10 to a written copy of the discharge plan.
11 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2803-t
12 to read as follows:
13 § 2803-t. Preadmission information. Any hospital that provides pread-
14 mission information to a patient, shall offer a blind or visually
15 impaired patient a large print version or, at the patient's or patient's
16 representative's request, an audio recording, to be made available to
17 such patient or such patient's representative on compact disc or other
18 medium as the hospital may offer, or as an electronically transmitted
19 digital file, in addition to a written copy of any preadmission informa-
20 tion.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02139-03-3
