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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1784--A
            Cal. No. 352
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 15, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  BIAGGI,  MAY,  RIVERA -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health  --  reported  favorably  from said committee, ordered to first
          report, amended on first  report,  ordered  to  a  second  report  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report
 
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring adult
          care facilities to include quality improvement committees and  include
          a  focus  on  infection  control in such facilities' quality assurance
          plans
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 2 of section 461-a of the
     2  social services law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of  1994,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  An inspection report shall be made of each inspection which shall
     5  clearly identify and indicate in detail each area of operation,  includ-
     6  ing,  but  not  limited to, the premises, equipment, personnel, resident
     7  care and services, and whether each such area of operation or any of its
     8  component parts is or is not in compliance with the regulations  of  the
     9  department and all other applicable requirements. It also shall identify
    10  those  areas  of  operation  or  any of its component parts found not in
    11  compliance as a result of failure in systemic practices and  procedures.
    12  The  operator  shall  be  notified of the results of the inspection in a
    13  manner to be determined by regulations of the department. Such notifica-
    14  tion shall contain directions as may be appropriate as to the manner and
    15  time in which compliance with applicable requirements of  law  or  regu-
    16  lations  of the department shall be effected.  The department shall also
    17  require the operator of an adult home or residence for adults to  devel-
    18  op,  biannually  update and implement plans for quality assurance activ-
    19  ities for each area of operation. Quality assurance  activities  include
    20  but are not limited to, development and maintenance of performance stan-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  dards  including  infection  control,  measurement  of adherence to such
     2  standards and to applicable state and local laws and regulations,  iden-
     3  tification  of  performance  failures,  design,  and  implementation  of
     4  corrective action.  Each plan must also include the creation of a quali-
     5  ty  improvement  committee that is charged with meeting periodically, at
     6  least once every six months, to review summary findings from  monitoring
     7  implementation  of  the facility's plan, evaluating the effectiveness of
     8  corrective action  policies,  and  identifying  trends  and  improvement
     9  activities.  While  reviewing  facility performance, the committee shall
    10  not examine personally identifiable resident incidents.  Such  committee
    11  shall  include  the administrator or operator of the facility, the resi-
    12  dent council president or other resident representative,  and  represen-
    13  tatives from frontline employees from each area of operation.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.