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A8819Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS7765

Distribute Lymphedema Info Packets

Official title

“Relates to the distribution of lymphedema information”

Sponsor Linda RosenthalAD-67Affects Health
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
4/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill requires hospitals to provide informational packets about lymphedema to patients at high risk of developing the condition.

Why it matters

  1. Targets early intervention and prevention. By mandating hospitals to provide information to high-risk patients, the bill aims to help individuals recognize lymphedema symptoms early, potentially reducing severity and improving outcomes through timely medical attention.

  2. Specifies who is considered "high risk". The legislation defines high-risk patients as those with serious soft tissue injuries, recurrent/persistent bacterial infections, or those who have had surgical procedures affecting the lymphatic system, ensuring the educational outreach is focused on those most in need.

  3. Standardizes patient education statewide. Requiring the state health commissioner to design the informational packet ensures consistent, evidence-based information is distributed in all hospitals, reducing disparities in patient knowledge and care.

  4. Promotes awareness of a frequently overlooked condition. Lymphedema can be a lifelong complication with major impacts on quality of life; this bill seeks to raise awareness among both patients and healthcare providers, potentially leading to better management and support.

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Distribute Lymphedema Info Packets

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Linda Rosenthal

Assembly Member · Assembly District 67

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History

  1. Signed chap.283
  2. Delivered to governor
  3. Returned to assembly
  4. Passed senateVote 62–0
  5. 3rd reading cal.1950
  6. Substituted for S7765B
  7. Referred to rules
  8. Delivered to senate
  9. Passed assembly
  10. Ordered to third reading rules cal.106
  11. Rules report cal.106
  12. Reported
Show 7 earlier actions
  1. Reported referred to rules
  2. Print number 8819b
  3. Amend and recommit to health
  4. Print number 8819a
  5. Amend and recommit to health
  6. Referred to health
  7. 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.

S7765Senate

Distribute Lymphedema Info Packets

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Martin J. Golden

Impact 4 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

8819--B

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

December 6, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the distribution of information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2803-v to read as follows:

§ 2803-v. Lymphedema information distribution. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "lymphedema" shall mean an accumulation of fluid in the interstitial tissue that causes swelling, most often in the arms and/or legs, and occasionally in other parts of the body, from any cause.

2. The commissioner shall design an informational packet about lymphedema and shall require that every general hospital distribute such packet to all patients at high risk of developing lymphedema. Patients deemed high risk shall include:

(a) patients who experience any significant injury to soft tissue that could reasonably be expected, using sound medical judgment, as a result of severity and nature thereof, to compromise or cause to be ineffective the drainage of the lymphatic system;

(b) patients who experience recurrent or persistent bacterial infections that could reasonably be expected, using sound medical judgment, as a result of severity and nature thereof, to compromise or cause to be ineffective the drainage of the lymphatic system; or

(c) patients who have had corrective surgical procedures performed that may have interfered with the lymph drainage by severing local lymp-

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD13592-07-8

A. 8819--B 2

hatics in a manner that may jeopardize reconstitution and recovery of lymph drainage.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.

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