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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1817
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 16, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  home  care  and
          community  based sepsis prevention, screening, intervention and educa-
          tion

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  3620-a to read as follows:
     3    § 3620-a. Sepsis. 1.  The  department  may  provide  support  for  the
     4  following  objectives  and  activities to promote community based sepsis
     5  prevention, screening, intervention and education in  the  state,  which
     6  may  include,  within available funds and upon the approval of the state
     7  director of the budget, grants or supplementation of reimbursement rates
     8  to providers. Such supported objectives and activities may include,  but
     9  are not limited to, on a voluntary home care agency basis:
    10    (a)  home  care  agency  integration  into  electronic  health records
    11  systems of a standardized sepsis screening  and  intervention  tool  for
    12  home  care  that  meets  adopted  industry standards and synchronizes to
    13  sepsis criteria utilized in hospitals according to departmental protocol
    14  requirements for hospitals;
    15    (b) timely and synchronized exchange of health information  on  behalf
    16  of  patients  meeting  or  suspected  to meet sepsis criteria, with such
    17  exchange between home care agencies integrating the standardized  sepsis
    18  tool,  and  emergency  medical  services providers, hospitals, patients'
    19  primary care practitioners, and other clinical partners, as applicable;
    20    (c) establishment and implementation of  sepsis  collaboratives  under
    21  the  hospital-home  care-physician  collaboration  program under section
    22  twenty-eight hundred five-x of this chapter, the purpose of which  shall
    23  be  to  pilot  test the effectiveness of collaboratives in promoting the
    24  goals of this section, as well as to pilot the development  of  clinical
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  pathways and interdisciplinary care plans for effective care transition,
     2  post-hospital discharge care, and subsequent sepsis prevention and read-
     3  mission avoidance for sepsis survivors;
     4    (d)  home  care  agency  sepsis  education and training of home health
     5  aides, personal care aides, and family caregivers;
     6    (e) community outreach and public and provider education conducted  by
     7  home care agencies, and by home care in conjunction with continuum part-
     8  ners,  including  hospitals,  physicians,  emergency  medical  services,
     9  health plans, nursing homes and  others,  as  well  as  with  state  and
    10  national  sepsis  public  education  organizations,  including  the Rory
    11  Staunton Foundation for  Sepsis  Prevention  and  Sepsis  Alliance.  The
    12  purpose  of  such education shall be to foster directly, and in partner-
    13  ship with providers, an effective sepsis response across  the  continuum
    14  of  care,  as  well  as  increased  public awareness and education about
    15  sepsis and sepsis prevention.
    16    2. The department shall issue guidance to home care and other applica-
    17  ble providers on the implementation of this section.
    18    § 2. The commissioner of health shall, within eighteen months  of  the
    19  effective  date  of this act, provide information to the legislature and
    20  governor on the activities supported by and outcomes  achieved  by  this
    21  act  in relation to sepsis awareness, prevention, intervention and miti-
    22  gation.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately the
    24  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    25  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    26  to be made on or before such date.