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- Referred to health
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Relates to allowing certain adult care facilities to arrange for limited nursing services
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Richard Gottfried
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Title of bill
An act to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing certain adult care facilities to arrange for limited nursing services
Purpose or general idea of bill
To more easily provide incidental nursing services to residents of certain Health Department licensed and regulated adult care facilities in order to avoid unnecessary transfers to hospitals and nursing homes, under Department regulations.
Summary of specific provisions
Add a new subdivision 6-a to SSL § 361-c that would permit the Commissioner of Health to make regulations regarding the provision of limited nursing services to a resident of a DOH licensed and regulated adult home, enriched housing, assisted living residences and special needs assisted living residence, under limited circumstances, with reporting to the Department.
Justification
When a resident of an adult home, enriched housing, assisted living residence or special needs assisted living residence requires a nursing evaluation or assessment or incidental nurse care, the facility must either arrange for a visit by a nursing agency or transfer the resident, most often to a hospital and sometime to a nursing home.
This bill allows the Commissioner of Health to make regulation that will permit operators to provide incidental nursing services for the benefit of residents who are otherwise subject to unnecessary transfers. The bill clearly prohibits an operator who chooses to undertake such service from misrepresenting their facilities as Enhanced Assisted Living or offering aging in place.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
none to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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