Relates to municipal limited health care service facilities; diagnostic or treatment centers or other facilities managed and administered by a local health department for the purpose of providing limited health care services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4390
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2019
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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 municipal limited
health care service facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2801-a of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
3 17. (a) Diagnostic or treatment centers or other facilities managed
4 and administered by a local health department for the purpose of provid-
5 ing limited health care services as defined by the commissioner may be
6 operated by a local health department. Such facilities shall be
7 referred to in this subdivision as "municipal limited health care
8 service facilities".
9 (b) The commissioner shall promulgate regulations for municipal limit-
10 ed health care service facilities, which may be different from the regu-
11 lations otherwise applicable to hospitals, including, but not limited
12 to: designating or limiting the diagnoses and services that may be
13 provided; employee health requirements; and requirements or guidelines
14 for advertising and signage, disclosure of ownership interests, informed
15 consent, record keeping, referral for treatment, case reporting to the
16 patient's primary care or other health care providers, design,
17 construction, fixtures, and equipment.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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