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- Referred to health
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1649
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Establishes pediatric day-respite care facilities
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Joseph Morelle
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to pediatric day-respite center
Purpose
To authorize Daystar for Medically Fragile Children, Inc., to be licensed as New York state's first and only Pediatric Day-Respite Center, delivering comprehensive family support services, educational enrichment programs, developmental services, and pediatric healthcare services to serve the needs of medically fragile and terminally ill children and their families.
Summary
Section 1 of this bill would amend the public health law by adding a new section 2803-ff.
Section 2 of this section would make the bill take effect in the hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
Justification
Daystar serves as a unique program model for the State of New York by providing coordinated case management services, educational programs, specialized developmental services and daily pediatric skilled nursing for up to forty children under age six who have a broad scope of intensive healthcare needs. While Daystar is dually authorized and regulated by OPWDD and OCFS, there remain critical gaps in center-based, step-down services for children with special healthcare and developmental needs. Unlike other states that recognize comprehensive Pediatric Day-Respite Center models as an effective management tool for high-needs populations, NYS lacks a formal mechanism within DOH to license and authorize direct healthcare services provided at Daystar.
By establishing Daystar as a Pediatric Day Respite Center, it will save New York State significant funding as Daystar costs ten times less than what NYS spends on pediatric hospital services and four times less than what NYS spends on private duty nursing. In addition, the program facilitates hospital discharge of sub-acute, medically complex children and minimizes readmissions; avoids preventable emergency room visits; provides economic independence; and allows family members to maintain their employment.
Daystar provides a highly efficient framework for delivering comprehensive, coordinated services to families who are struggling to transition their medically fragile child from hospital to home. If enacted this program will establish New York State as a vanguard for comprehensive care for medically fragile children.
Legislative history
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Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect in the hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
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