Relates to directing the commissioner of health to conduct a study on the feasibility of creating a burn center in Kings County Medical Center in collaboration with SUNY Downstate Medical Center's University Hospital of Brooklyn.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4949
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 24, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT in relation to directing the commissioner of health to conduct a
study on the feasibility of creating a burn center in Kings County
Medical Center in collaboration with SUNY Downstate Medical Center's
University Hospital of Brooklyn
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of health is directed to conduct a study
2 and do research as to the feasibility of creating a burn center in Kings
3 County Medical Center in collaboration with SUNY Downstate Medical
4 Center's University Hospital of Brooklyn.
5 The study shall be conducted in accordance with rules, regulations and
6 standards determined by the commissioner of health. The study shall
7 concentrate on provisions of optimal care to burn patients for the time
8 of injury through rehabilitation with the goal of establishing a frame-
9 work for the establishment of an accredited burn unit that provides high
10 quality patient care while meeting the standards for organizational
11 structure, personnel qualifications, facilities resources and medical
12 care services pursuant to the Guidelines for the Operation of Burn
13 Centers of the American Burn Association.
14 The commissioner of health shall report his or her findings to the
15 governor, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assem-
16 bly, the temporary president of the senate and the minority leader of
17 the senate on or before one year from the date this act shall take
18 effect.
19 § 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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