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- Referred to health
- Referred to health
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Relates to directing the commissioner of health to conduct a study on the feasibility of creating a burn center in Kings County Medical Center
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Diana Richardson
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BILL NUMBER:S4949
Title of bill
An act in relation to directing the commissioner of health to conduct a study on the feasibility of creating a burn center in Kings County Medical Center in collaboration with SUNY Downstate Medical Center's University Hospital of Brooklyn
Purpose or general idea of bill
To study the viability and cost of a facility that would fill a medical services void for burn victims in Brooklyn.
Summary of specific provisions
This bill would establish a study to determine the feasibility of creating a burn unit in SUNY Downstate Medical Center's University Hospital of Brooklyn, which could be located in an under-utilized or unused retrofitted former inpatient area.
Justification
There are currently only three burn units for burn victims in New York City: New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, Jacoby Hospital in the Bronx, and Staten Island University Hospital North. However, the only New York burn center to meet the qualifications for the American Burn Association is the William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Moreover, it is inexplicable that Brooklyn as the fourth largest municipality in the nation does not have a burn center.
The number of major fires in Brooklyn has been increasing as of late. One can only speculate that this may be attributable to increases in the value of property - commercial or residential - in a current market wherein the destruction of space make way for higher end and luxury real estate. In addition to the lives lost in these fires, there were many more injured. A number of victims were severely burned and at times permanently disfigured because they were unable to receive immediate treatment. It should be our goal to develop a burn center in a Brooklyn hospital for the provision of optimal care to burn patients from the time of injury through rehabilitation. We must address this void in the provision of health care for our Brooklyn constituency.
It is necessary that a burn center is created to provide optimal care to burn patients. This requires quick access to facilities, benefits from association with teaching and fellowship programs associated with the American College of Surgeons and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Prior legislative history
None.
Fiscal implications
Approximately $1,250,000 to conduct a feasibility study to establish a burn unit at Kings County Hospital in collaboration with the trauma center at SUNY Downstate Medical Center's University Hospital of Brooklyn.
It is estimated that the project would cost approximately $25 million for renovation, fixed and moveable equipment and additional staffing.
Funding for the feasibility study is available under the governor's current $700 million appropriation for Kings County "health care
facility transformation in Kings County" specifically for capital, non-operational works.
Effective date
Effective immediately.
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