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N.Y. Public Health Law § 2799-R Program evaluations and recommendations; reports and statewide conference on best practices
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§ 2799-r. Program evaluations and recommendations; reports and statewide conference on best practices. 1. Employers participating in the New York wellness works program pursuant to this article shall report to the commissioner on the findings, experience and benefits pursuant to…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 280 Medicaid drug cap
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§ 280. Medicaid drug cap. 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that there is a significant public interest for the Medicaid program to manage drug costs in a manner that ensures patient access while providing financial stability for the state and participating providers.…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 280-A Pharmacy benefit managers
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§ 280-a. Pharmacy benefit managers. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Health plan " means an entity for which a pharmacy benefit manager provides pharmacy benefit management services and that is a health benefit …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 280-B Unused prescription drug donation and redispensing program
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§ 280-b. Unused prescription drug donation and redispensing program. 1. As used in this section: (a) "Donor entity" means a manufacturer, wholesaler, or distributor of prescription drugs; a pharmacy; or a hospital authorized under article twenty-eight of this chapter. (b) "Recip…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 280-C Pharmacy audits by pharmacy benefit managers
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§ 280-c. Pharmacy audits by pharmacy benefit managers. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Pharmacy benefit manager" shall have the same meaning as in section two hundred eighty-a of this article. (b) "Pharmacy" sh…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 280-D Patient notification of prescription label change
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§ 280-d. Patient notification of prescription label change. A health care prescriber shall inform the patient if such prescriber has included or has requested to include the name or address of the prescribing health care practice instead of the name of such prescriber on the pre…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2800 Declaration of policy and statement of purpose
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§ 2800. Declaration of policy and statement of purpose. Hospital and related services including health-related service of the highest quality, efficiently provided and properly utilized at a reasonable cost, are of vital concern to the public health. In order to provide for the …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801 Definitions
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§ 2801. Definitions. The following words or phrases, as used in this\narticle, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise\nrequires:\n * 1. "Hospital" means a facility or institution engaged principally in\nproviding services by or under the supervision of a…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-A Establishment or incorporation of hospitals
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§ 2801-a. Establishment or incorporation of hospitals. 1. No hospital, as defined in this article, shall be established except with the written approval of the public health and health planning council. No certificate of incorporation of a business membership or not-for-profit c…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-B Improper practices in hospital staff appointments and extension of professional privileges prohibited
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§ 2801-b. Improper practices in hospital staff appointments and extension of professional privileges prohibited. 1. It shall be an improper practice for the governing body of a hospital to refuse to act upon an application for staff membership or professional privileges or to de…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-C Injunctions
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§ 2801-c. Injunctions. The supreme court may enjoin violations or threatened violations of any provisions of this article; and it may enjoin violations of the regulations of the department adopted thereunder. Upon request of the public health council or the commissioner, the att…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-D Private actions by patients of residential health care facilities
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§ 2801-d. Private actions by patients of residential health care facilities. 1. Any residential health care facility that deprives any patient of said facility of any right or benefit, as hereinafter defined, shall be liable to said patient for injuries suffered as a result of s…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-E Voluntary residential health care facility rightsizing demonstration program
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§ 2801-e. Voluntary residential health care facility rightsizing demonstration program. 1. The voluntary residential health care facility rightsizing demonstration program is intended to be a flexible and innovative approach to dealing with excess capacity in residential health …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-F Residential health care facility quality incentive payment program
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§ 2801-f. Residential health care facility quality incentive payment program. Subject to amounts appropriated for the residential health care facility quality incentive payment program, the department may make a payment to operators of residential health care facilities, located…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-G Community forum on hospital closure
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§ 2801-g. Community forum on hospital closure. 1. No later than thirty days after the closure of a general hospital, the commissioner shall hold a public community forum for the purpose of obtaining public input concerning the anticipated impact of the general hospital's closure…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2801-H Personal caregiving and compassionate caregiving visitors to nursing home residents during declared local or state health emergencies
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§ 2801-h. Personal caregiving visitors for nursing home residents during public health emergencies. 1. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "personal caregiving visitor" means a family member, close friend, or legal guardian of a resident…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2802 Approval of construction
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§ 2802. Approval of construction. The construction of a hospital, whether public or private, incorporated or not incorporated, shall require the prior approval of the commissioner. 1. An application for such construction shall be filed with the department, together with such oth…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2802-A Transitional care unit demonstration program
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§ 2802-a. Transitional care unit demonstration program. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner is authorized to approve up to eighteen general hospitals within the state to operate transitional care units by and within such general hospit…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2802-B Health equity impact assessments
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§ 2802-b. Health equity impact assessments. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) "Application" means an application under this article for the construction, establishment, change in the establishment, merger, acquisition, elimination or substantial reduction, expansion, …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803 Commissioner and council; powers and duties
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§ 2803. Commissioner and council; powers and duties. 1. (a) The commissioner shall have the power to inquire into the operation of hospitals and to conduct periodic inspections of facilities with respect to the fitness and adequacy of the premises, equipment, personnel, rules an…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-A Authority to contract
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§ 2803-a. Authority to contract. Hospitals, including hospitals described in subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, are hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as the council may authorize, to enter into contracts and make arrangements among thems…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-AA Sickle cell disease information distribution
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* § 2803-aa. Sickle cell disease information distribution. The commissioner shall design an informational packet about sickle cell disease, including screening, prevention, and treatment information. Every general hospital shall distribute the packet to every patient, or, if the…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-AA*2 Nursing home infection control competency audit
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* § 2803-aa. Nursing home infection control competency audit. 1. The commissioner shall establish in the department a program for audits of nursing homes to measure specific core competencies relating to infection control of each nursing home. The audits shall commence on Decemb…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-B Uniform reports and accounting systems for hospital costs
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§ 2803-b. Uniform reports and accounting systems for hospital costs. 1. The council, after public hearings with respect to its proposed systems of uniform hospital accounting and reporting, shall, by majority vote of its members and subject to approval of the commissioner, adopt…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-BB Provision of language assistance
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§ 2803-bb. Provision of language assistance. Every general hospital shall develop a language assistance program to ensure meaningful access to the general hospital's services and reasonable accommodation for all patients who require language assistance. Program requirements shal…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-C Rights of patients in certain medical facilities
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§ 2803-c. Rights of patients in certain medical facilities. 1. The principles enunciated in subdivision three hereof are declared to be the public policy of the state and a copy of such statement of rights and responsibilities shall be posted conspicuously in a public place in e…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-C-1 Rights of patients in certain medical facilities; long-term care ombudsman program
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§ 2803-c-1. Rights of patients in certain medical facilities; long-term care ombudsman program. 1. Each nursing home and residential health care facility providing health related service, as defined in subdivisions two and three and paragraph (b) of subdivision four of section t…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-C-2 Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and people living with HIV long-term care facility residents' bill of rights
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§ 2803-c-2. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and people living with HIV long-term care facility residents' bill of rights. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Gender identity or expression" shall have the same meaning as defined by section two hundred n…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-D Reporting abuses of persons receiving care or services in residential health care facilities
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§ 2803-d. Reporting abuses of persons receiving care or services in residential health care facilities. 1. The following persons are required to report in accordance with this section when they have reasonable cause to believe that a person receiving care or services in a reside…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-E Residential health care facilities; return and redistribution of unused medication
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* § 2803-e. Residential health care facilities; return and redistribution of unused medication. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to permit either a resident or consultant …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-E*2 Reporting incidents of possible professional misconduct
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* § 2803-e. Reporting incidents of possible professional misconduct. 1. (a) Hospitals and other facilities approved pursuant to this article shall make a report or cause a report to be made within thirty days of the occurrence of any of the following: the suspension, restriction…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-F Respite projects
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§ 2803-f. Respite projects. Residential health care facilities shall be permitted, with the prior approval of the commissioner in consultation with the director of the state office for the aging, to participate in respite projects pursuant to section two hundred eight of the eld…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-G Board of visitors in county owned residential health care facility
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§ 2803-g. Board of visitors in county owned residential health care facility. 1. Each public residential health care facility owned by a county may have a board of visitors consisting of at least seven members. Members shall be appointed by the county executive of the county in …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-H Health related facility; pet therapy programs
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§ 2803-h. Health related facility; pet therapy programs. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, and subject to the approval of the commissioner, every residential health care facility, as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-I General hospital inpatient discharge review program
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§ 2803-i. General hospital inpatient discharge review program. 1. A general hospital inpatient discharge review program applicable to all patients other than beneficiaries of title XVIII of the federal social security act (medicare) shall be established in accordance with this s…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-J Information for maternity patients
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* § 2803-j. Information for maternity patients. 1. The commissioner shall require that every hospital and birth center shall prepare in printed or photocopied form and distribute at the time of pre-booking directly to each prospective maternity patient and, upon request, to the …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-J*2 Nursing home nurse aide registry
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* § 2803-j. Nursing home nurse aide registry. 1. The department shall develop and maintain, or cause to be developed and maintained, a nurse aide registry of individuals who have successfully completed a nurse aide training program approved by the commissioner or the commissione…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-K In-patient nasogastric feeding procedures
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§ 2803-k. In-patient nasogastric feeding procedures. The commissioner shall promulgate and administer regulations and policies governing the maximum size of nasogastric feeding tubes in hospitals and residential health care facilities to protect patients from undue discomfort. …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-L Community service plans
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§ 2803-l. Community service plans. 1. The governing body of a voluntary non-profit general hospital must issue an organizational mission statement identifying at a minimum the populations and communities served by the hospital and the hospital's commitment to meeting the health …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-M Discharge of hospital patients to adult homes
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§ 2803-m. Discharge of hospital patients to adult homes. (1) A patient about to be discharged as an inpatient from a hospital as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of this article to an adult home, enriched housing program or residence for adults as defined in section t…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-N Hospital care for maternity patients
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§ 2803-n. Hospital care for maternity patients. 1. When a general hospital provides maternity care: (a) Inpatient care for mothers and newborns shall be offered for not less than forty-eight hours after childbirth for any delivery other than a caesarean section, and for more tha…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-O Hospital care for mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lymph node dissection patients
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§ 2803-o. Hospital care for mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lymph node dissection patients. 1. When a general hospital provides mastectomy surgery, lymph node dissection or a lumpectomy, inpatient care shall be offered for a period as determined by the attending physician in consult…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-P Disclosure of information concerning family violence
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§ 2803-p. Disclosure of information concerning family violence. 1. As used in this section: (a) Domestic violence shall mean acts as referred to in and qualified by section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law. (b) Child abuse and maltreatment shall have the same…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-Q Family councils in residential health care facilities
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§ 2803-q. Family councils in residential health care facilities. 1. As used in this section: (a) Family council means an organization of family members, friends, or representatives of two or more residents of a residential health care facility, organized to act under this sectio…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-R Dissemination of information about the abandoned infant protection act
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§ 2803-r. Dissemination of information about the abandoned infant protection act. 1. All hospitals and clinics shall notify their prenatal care and obstetric patients of the provisions of the abandoned infant protection act, using materials provided by the office of children and…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-S Access to product recall information
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§ 2803-s. Access to product recall information. The commissioner shall require that every hospital and birth center distribute at the time of pre-booking or admission directly to each maternity patient and, upon request, to the general public an informational leaflet. Such leafl…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-T Preadmission information
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§ 2803-t. Preadmission information. 1. Any general hospital that provides preadmission information to a patient, shall offer a blind or visually impaired patient a large print version or, at the patient's or patient's representative's request, an audio recording, to be made avai…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-U Hospital substance use disorder policies and procedures
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§ 2803-u. Hospital substance use disorder policies and procedures. 1. The office of alcoholism and substance abuse services, in consultation with the department, shall develop or utilize existing educational materials to be provided to general hospitals to disseminate to individ…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-V Lymphedema information distribution
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* § 2803-v. Lymphedema information distribution. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "lymphedema" shall mean an accumulation of fluid in the interstitial tissue that causes swelling, most often in the arms and/or legs, and occasionally in other parts of the body, from …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-V*2 Standing orders for newborn care in a hospital
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* § 2803-v. Standing orders for newborn care in a hospital. 1. A hospital may establish standing orders for the care of newborns in the hospital until the discharge of the newborn from the hospital following the birth, which may authorize an attending nurse to provide services a…