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Senator · Senate District 38
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History
- Reported and committed to finance
- Print number 6607a
- Amend and recommit to mental health and developmental disabilities
- Referred to mental health and developmental disabilities
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Relates to the creation of an acute psychiatric bed registry
In Assembly Committee · Mental Health · Sponsor Joseph Lentol
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S6607A REVISED 3/25/14
Title of bill
An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the creation of an acute psychiatric bed registry
Purpose
To establish and administer a web-based acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, aggregate, and display information about available beds in public and private inpatient psychiatric facilities.
Summary of provisions
The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 9.65 to create an acute psychiatric bed registry. This registry shall include descriptive information for every public and private inpatient psychiatric facility and every public or private crisis stabilization unit in the state; provided real-time information about the number of beds available at each facility.
Every state facility, community services board, behavioral health authority, and private provider licensed by the department shall participate in the acute psychiatric bed registry, and shall designate an employee to submit information for the inclusion in the acute psychiatric bed registry.
Justification
Due in part to the closure of many psychiatric facilities throughout the State, psychiatric patients and their families are forced to turn to emergency rooms in hospitals when experiencing acute psychiatric distress. However, there are finite, limited number of beds for psychiatric patients in hospitals. If an acute psychiatric bed in unavailable to a patient within such hospital, the emergency personal may be forced to release the patient. Establishing a web-based acute psychiatric bed registry would enable the emergency rooms, as well as any public or private psychiatric inpatient facility, to be part of a data base that can easily determine at which facility acute psychiatric beds are available, in real time, instead of simply releasing a patient when unable to provide a bed. This will help aid in acute psychiatric patients receiving the care they and their families need and deserve.
Legislative history
None
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the one hundred and eightieth day after it shall have become law.
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