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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7271
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 8, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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  ensuring  ongoing
          quality  assurance  measures for emergency medical and trauma care and
          autopsy reports on deceased patients treated at hospitals
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 3066 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 449 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     3    4. The department shall develop and periodically revise  a  comprehen-
     4  sive emergency medical and trauma care plan with the advice of the state
     5  emergency medical services council, the state emergency medical advisory
     6  committee  and the state trauma advisory committee, incorporating injury
     7  control programs and ongoing quality assurance measures for  all  compo-
     8  nents of the trauma system involved in trauma care.
     9    §  2.  The section heading of section 4210 of the public health law is
    10  amended and a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:
    11    [Cadavers] Deceased persons; right to dissect.

    12    2-a. Where a person dies while under care or treatment  at  a  general
    13  hospital  (as defined by subdivision ten of section twenty-eight hundred
    14  one of this chapter) or while recovering from such  care  or  treatment,
    15  any  autopsy  report  for  such  person  shall be made available, by the
    16  coroner or medical examiner under whose  jurisdiction  the  autopsy  was
    17  performed, in a timely manner, to the hospital, for the purpose of ongo-
    18  ing performance improvement of such hospital, including for the purposes
    19  of  sections twenty-eight hundred five-j and twenty-eight hundred five-k
    20  of this chapter. All such reports in the possession of a hospital  shall
    21  be  subject  to the provisions of section twenty-eight hundred five-m of
    22  this chapter.

    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15062-02-4