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Provides all blind and visually impaired patients with an audio recording of the discharge plan and preadmission information, where provided
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Linda Rosenthal
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BILL NUMBER:S4325
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to providing all blind and visually impaired patients with an audio recording of the discharge plan and preadmission information
Purpose or general idea of bill
The purpose of the bill is to direct hospitals to provide all blind and visually impaired patients with an audio recording of their discharge plan and preadmission information in an effort to allow access to this sensitive healthcare information while protecting patients' right to privacy on such matters.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 adds a new subdivision 9 to section 2803-i of the public health law that directs hospitals to provide all blind and visually impaired patients with an audio recording of their discharge plan and preadmission information.
Section 2 sets an effective date of ninety days following enactment of the law.
Justification
It is often difficult for patients to remember the extensive instructions given to them by their doctors upon preadmission to and discharge from hospital. Blind or visually impaired patients might also have trouble writing down instructions, which would compound the difficulty of remembering them. In addition, privacy to sensitive private health information contained in these types of documents is lost under current practices when hospital employees read this information aloud to patients.
This bill requires hospitals to provide blind and visually impaired patients with an audio recording of their preadmission information and discharge plan so they will have access to their doctors' instructions once they leave the hospital. This bill is necessary to ensure that such patients are able to access and follow the instructions given by their doctors and to protect their privacy of this sensitive information.
Prior legislative history
Same As A.1469A (Rosenthal)/2010: A.6671B (Rosenthal)
Fiscal implications for state and local governments
Undetermined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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