Requires residential health care facilities to update residents, authorized family members, and guardians of residents of the presence of an infection and to have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for designating a separate cohort area.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9027--A
IN SENATE
October 5, 2020
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, RIVERA, MAY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring
infection updates and infection control planning in residential health
care facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of
2 section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a new clause
3 (C) to read as follows:
4 (C) to update all residents, authorized family members, and guardians
5 of residents at the facility within twelve hours of the detection of the
6 presence of an infection by a resident or staff member by electronic
7 means or such other means as may be selected by each resident, author-
8 ized family member, or guardian.
9 § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of section
10 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a new clause (C) to
11 read as follows:
12 (C) a plan or procedure designating a separate cohort area during an
13 infectious disease outbreak in the residential health care facility for
14 the separation of residents that are suspected of being infectious,
15 including the creation of a designated infectious disease care unit.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17349-02-0
