What's happening
This bill requires hospitals to notify incoming patients about recent hospital-acquired infections through daily updated, clearly posted signs.
Why it matters
Empowers patients to make informed choices. by ensuring they have up-to-date knowledge of recent infection outbreaks in the hospital, potentially influencing decisions about their care or facility selection.
Increases hospital accountability and transparency. regarding infection control, which may motivate hospitals to improve their practices to avoid public reporting of high infection rates.
Mandates clear, accessible communication. , requiring information to be posted in a way that is understandable to all patients and providing copies upon request, which helps ensure that all patients, regardless of background, are equally informed.
Introduces enforceable penalties for non-compliance. , giving the law real consequences for hospitals that fail to provide this information, thereby strengthening patient rights and safety.
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Notify Patients About Hospital Infections
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Andrew J. Lanza
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8224
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 2, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to notifying hospital patients upon intake of reports of hospital-acquired infections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2819 of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
6-a. No later than one hundred eighty days after the issuance of the reports required pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision five of this section, each general hospital shall be required to notify patients as a component of prebooking, intake and registration of the hospital-acquired infections, that would be required to be reported to the department pursuant to this section, that occurred in the hospital for the prior thirty day period. Such notification shall be updated on a daily basis and shall be accomplished through the conspicuous posting of signs, which are easily understandable by the general public, and shall include directions on how to obtain additional information. To the degree practicable, the format of such signs shall be consistent with the format of the summary table required to be developed pursuant to subdivision six of this section. Upon request the hospital shall provide a patient with an individual copy of the information contained on such sign. The department through regulation shall establish penalties applicable to the first and subsequent violations of the requirement imposed by 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.
LBD11567-01-7
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