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N.Y. Public Health Law § 292 Collection
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§ 292. Collection. 1. All pharmacies shall provide for the safe collection of drugs, which shall include: (a) Offering drug collection by one or more of the following methods: (i) On-site collection, dropbox, or receptacle meeting federal standards; (ii) Mail-back collection by …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 293 Violations
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§ 293. Violations. Violation of this article shall be subject to fines pursuant to section twelve of this chapter. Each day in which the violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 294 Jurisdiction
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§ 294. Jurisdiction. Jurisdiction of all matters pertaining to drug disposal by this article is vested exclusively in the state. Any provision of any local law or ordinance, or any rule or regulation promulgated prior to, or upon the effective date of this section, shall be pree…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2950 Legislative findings
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§ 2950. Legislative findings. The legislature finds and determines as follows: 1. The health care delivery system is undergoing a major transformation in response to changing demographics and consumer needs, changes in reimbursement policies, the emergence of alternate service p…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2951 Definitions
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§ 2951. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "Rural area" shall mean any county with less than two hundred thousand population or any town which has a population of less than two hundred persons per square mile or, if approved by the commissioner, any town which has…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2952 Rural health network development grant program
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§ 2952. Rural health network development grant program. To the extent of funds available therefor, the sum of seven million dollars shall annually be available for periods prior to January first, two thousand three, and up to six million five hundred thirty thousand dollars annu…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2954 Limitation on liability of network participants
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§ 2954. Limitation on liability of network participants. Neither a rural health network, nor any provider participating therein, whether by agreement or through membership or common directorates, shall be liable for claims against or for the debt or obligations of any other affi…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2955 Restraint of trade by networks and network participants
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§ 2955. Restraint of trade by networks and network participants. The activities of rural health networks and providers participating therein, undertaken in furtherance of planning, implementing or operating a network or promoting the efficient delivery of health care services in…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2956 Designation of upgraded diagnostic and treatment centers
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§ 2956. Designation of upgraded diagnostic and treatment centers. 1. A diagnostic and treatment center established pursuant to article twenty-eight of this chapter, which is a participant in or a member of a rural health network, may request the commissioner to authorize such di…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2957 Designation of primary care hospitals
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§ 2957. Designation of primary care hospitals. 1. A general hospital established pursuant to article twenty-eight of this chapter may request the commissioner to exempt such hospital from particular services or to authorize such hospital to offer additional special services. Suc…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2958 Rural health care access development program
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§ 2958. Rural health care access development program. 1. To the extent of funds available therefor, the sum of ten million dollars shall annually be made available for periods prior to January first, two thousand three, and up to nine million three hundred twenty thousand dollar…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2958-A Rural dentistry pilot program
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§ 2958-a. Rural dentistry pilot program. 1. The commissioner shall, within monies appropriated therefore, establish a rural dentistry pilot program in Chautauqua, Allegany, and Cattaraugus counties. The commissioner shall, in coordination with the University of Buffalo School of…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2959-A Multipayor patient centered medical home program
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§ 2959-a. Multipayor patient centered medical home program. 1. (a) The commissioner is authorized to establish medical home multipayor programs (referred to in this section as a "program") whereby enhanced payments are made to primary care clinicians and clinics statewide that a…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2980 Definitions
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§ 2980. Definitions. The following words or phrases, used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Adult" means any person who is eighteen years of age or older, or is the parent of a child, or has married. 2. "Attending prac…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2981 Appointment of health care agent; health care proxy
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§ 2981. Appointment of health care agent; health care proxy. 1. Authority to appoint agent; presumption of competence. (a) A competent adult may appoint a health care agent in accordance with the terms of this article. (b) For the purposes of this section, every adult shall be p…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2982 Rights and duties of agent
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§ 2982. Rights and duties of agent. 1. Scope of authority. Subject to any express limitations in the health care proxy, an agent shall have the authority to make any and all health care decisions on the principal's behalf that the principal could make. Such authority shall be su…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2983 Determination of lack of capacity to make health care decisions for the purpose of empowering agent
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§ 2983. Determination of lack of capacity to make health care decisions for the purpose of empowering agent. 1. Determination by attending practitioner. (a) A determination that a principal lacks capacity to make health care decisions shall be made by the attending practitioner …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2984 Provider's obligations
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§ 2984. Provider's obligations. 1. A health care provider who is provided with a health care proxy shall arrange for the proxy or a copy thereof to be inserted in the principal's medical record if the health care proxy has not been included in such record. 2. A health care provi…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2985 Revocation
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§ 2985. Revocation. 1. Means of revoking proxy. (a) A competent adult may revoke a health care proxy by notifying the agent or a health care provider orally or in writing or by any other act evidencing a specific intent to revoke the proxy. (b) For the purposes of this section, …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2986 Immunity
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§ 2986. Immunity. 1. Provider immunity. No health care provider or employee thereof shall be subjected to criminal or civil liability, or be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct, for honoring in good faith a health care decision by an agent, or for other actions take…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2987 Liability for health care costs
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§ 2987. Liability for health care costs. Liability for the cost of health care provided pursuant to an agent's decision shall be the same as if the health care were provided pursuant to the principal's decision.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2988 Requiring or prohibiting execution of proxy
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§ 2988. Requiring or prohibiting execution of proxy. No person may require or prohibit the execution of a health care proxy by an individual as a condition for providing health care services or insurance to such individual.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2989 Effect on other rights
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§ 2989. Effect on other rights. 1. A competent adult's failure to appoint a health care agent or to provide the agent with specific health care instructions pursuant to this article shall create no presumptions regarding the adult's wishes about health care. 2. Nothing in this a…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2990 Proxies executed in other states
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§ 2990. Proxies executed in other states. A health care proxy or similar instrument executed in another state or jurisdiction in compliance with the law of that state or jurisdiction shall be considered validly executed for purposes of this article.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2991 Creation and use of proxies in residential health care and mental hygiene facilities
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§ 2991. Creation and use of proxies in residential health care and mental hygiene facilities. 1. Residential health care facilities and mental hygiene facilities shall establish procedures: (a) to provide information to adult residents about their right to create a health care p…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2992 Special proceeding authorized
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§ 2992. Special proceeding authorized. The health care provider or guardian of the principal under article eighty-one of the mental hygiene law or article seventeen-A of the surrogate's court procedure act, members of the principal's family, a close friend of the principal as de…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2993 Regulations
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§ 2993. Regulations. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioners of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities, shall establish such regulations as may be necessary for the implementation of this article, subject to the pro…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994 Rights to be publicized
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§ 2994. Rights to be publicized. The commissioner of health shall prepare a statement summarizing the rights, duties and requirements of this article and shall require that a copy of such statement: 1. Be furnished to patients or their families at or prior to the time of admissi…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-A Definitions
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§ 2994-a. Definitions. The following words or phrases, used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Adult" means any person who is eighteen years of age or older or has married. 2. "Attending practitioner" means a physician,…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-AA Definitions
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§ 2994-aa. Definitions. 1. "Adult" means any person who is eighteen years of age or older, or is the parent of a child or has married. 2. "Attending practitioner" means the physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant who has primary responsibility for the treatment and …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-B Applicability; priority of certain other surrogate decision-making laws and regulations
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§ 2994-b. Applicability; priority of certain other surrogate decision-making laws and regulations. 1. This article shall apply to health care decisions regarding health care provided in a hospital, and to decisions regarding hospice care without regard to where the decision is m…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-BB General provisions
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§ 2994-bb. General provisions. 1. (a) Emergency medical services personnel, home care services agency personnel, hospice personnel, and hospital emergency services personnel shall honor nonhospital orders not to resuscitate, except as provided in section twenty-nine hundred nine…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-C Determination of incapacity
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§ 2994-c. Determination of incapacity. 1. Presumption of capacity. For purposes of this article, every adult shall be presumed to have decision-making capacity unless determined otherwise pursuant to this section or pursuant to court order, or unless a guardian is authorized to …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-CC Consent to a nonhospital order not to resuscitate
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§ 2994-cc. Consent to a nonhospital order not to resuscitate. 1. An adult with decision-making capacity, a health care agent, or a surrogate may consent to a nonhospital order not to resuscitate orally to the attending practitioner or in writing. If a patient consents to a nonho…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-D Health care decisions for adult patients by surrogates
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§ 2994-d. Health care decisions for adult patients by surrogates. 1. Identifying the surrogate. One person from the following list from the class highest in priority when persons in prior classes are not reasonably available, willing, and competent to act, shall be the surrogate…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-DD Managing a nonhospital order not to resuscitate
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§ 2994-dd. Managing a nonhospital order not to resuscitate. 1. The attending practitioner shall record the issuance of a nonhospital order not to resuscitate in the patient's medical record. 2. A nonhospital order not to resuscitate shall be issued upon a standard form prescribe…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-E Decisions about life-sustaining treatment for minor patients
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§ 2994-e. Decisions about life-sustaining treatment for minor patients. 1. Authority of parent or guardian. The parent or guardian of a minor patient shall have the authority to make decisions about life-sustaining treatment, including decisions to withhold or withdraw such trea…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-EE Obligation to honor a nonhospital order not to resuscitate
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§ 2994-ee. Obligation to honor a nonhospital order not to resuscitate. Emergency medical services personnel, home care services agency personnel, hospice personnel, or hospital emergency services personnel who are provided with a nonhospital order not to resuscitate, or who iden…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-F Obligations of attending practitioner
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§ 2994-f. Obligations of attending practitioner. 1. An attending practitioner informed of a decision to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment made pursuant to the standards of this article shall record the decision in the patient's medical record, review the medical bas…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-FF Interinstitutional transfer
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§ 2994-ff. Interinstitutional transfer. If a patient with a nonhospital order not to resuscitate is admitted to a hospital, or if a hospital patient with an order not to resuscitate is transferred from a hospital to a different hospital, the order shall be treated as an order no…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-G Health care decisions for adult patients without surrogates
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§ 2994-g. Health care decisions for adult patients without surrogates. 1. Identifying adult patients without surrogates. Within a reasonable time after admission as an inpatient to the hospital of each adult patient, the hospital shall make reasonable efforts to determine if the…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-GG Immunity
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§ 2994-gg. Immunity. No person shall be subjected to criminal prosecution or civil liability, or be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct, for honoring reasonably and in good faith pursuant to this article a nonhospital order not to resuscitate, for disregarding a non…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-HH Short title
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§ 2994-hh. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "CARE act".
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-I Specific policies for orders not to resuscitate
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§ 2994-i. Specific policies for orders not to resuscitate. An order not to resuscitate shall be written in the patient's medical record. Consent to an order not to resuscitate shall not constitute consent to withhold or withdraw treatment other than cardiopulmonary resuscitation…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-II Definitions
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§ 2994-ii. Definitions. When used in this article, the following words or phrases shall have the following meanings: 1. "Hospital" shall mean any "general hospital" as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter. 2. "After-care" shall mean any assistance provided…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-J Revocation of consent
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§ 2994-j. Revocation of consent. 1. A patient, surrogate, or parent or guardian of a minor patient may at any time revoke his or her consent to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment by informing an attending practitioner or a member of the medical or nursing staff of th…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-JJ Caregiver; opportunity to identify
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§ 2994-jj. Caregiver; opportunity to identify. 1. A hospital shall provide each patient or, if applicable, the patient's legal guardian with at least one opportunity to identify at least one caregiver under this article following the patient's entry into a hospital and prior to …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-K Implementation and review of decisions
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§ 2994-k. Implementation and review of decisions. 1. Hospitals shall adopt written policies requiring implementation and regular review of decisions to withhold or withdrew life-sustaining treatment in accordance with accepted medical standards. Hospitals shall also develop poli…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-KK Notice to identified caregiver
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§ 2994-kk. Notice to identified caregiver. A hospital shall notify the patient's identified caregiver of the patient's discharge or transfer to another hospital or facility licensed by the department or the office of mental health as soon as the date and time of discharge or tra…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-L Interinstitutional transfers
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§ 2994-l. Interinstitutional transfers. 1. If a patient with an order to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment is transferred from a mental hygiene facility to a hospital or from a hospital to a different hospital, any such order or plan shall remain effective until an …