What's happening
This bill requires New York hospitals to implement procedural checklists for all intensive care unit medical procedures to improve patient safety.
Why it matters
Mandates hospitals to create and consistently use checklists for every ICU procedure, which can help standardize care, reduce human error, and promote best practices during high-risk interventions.
Aims to directly reduce hospital-acquired infections and related complications, potentially leading to better patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs associated with preventable mistakes and prolonged hospital stays.
Requires hospitals to ensure that all necessary equipment, supplies, and trained personnel are available before procedures begin, addressing common causes of procedural delays or errors that can jeopardize patient safety.
Sets a strict timeline (180 days) for the Department of Health to implement these rules, signaling urgency and prioritizing patient safety improvements across all New York hospitals.
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Who cares
Hospitals
Every hospital would have to establish, use and complete a checklist for each intensive care unit medical procedure.
Intensive care clinicians
The required checklists would help ensure necessary equipment, supplies, facilities and personnel are available for ICU procedures.
ICU patients
The checklists would be designed to reduce infections and related illnesses and improve patient health and safety.
New York State health commissioner
The commissioner would have to promulgate and implement the checklist rules within 180 days of the bill’s immediate effective date.
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ICU Checklist Required in Hospitals
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History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Require ICU Procedure Checklists
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Michael Gianaris
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2436
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospitals to establish and utilize procedural medical checklists for the provision of all intensive care unit medical procedures
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
12. The commissioner shall by rule or regulation require every hospital to establish, utilize and complete a checklist for each intensive care unit medical procedure performed or occurring at such hospital. Such checklists shall be designed and used for the purposes of reducing infections and related illnesses, improving the health and safety of patients, and ensuring that the necessary equipment, supplies, facilities and personnel are available for the conduct of the intensive care medical procedure. All such rules and regulations shall be promulgated and implemented within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this subdivision.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04542-01-7
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