What's happening
This bill requires hospitals to adopt and follow standardized protocols for managing obstetric hemorrhage, including reporting and use of state guidance.
Why it matters
Standardizes hospital response. By mandating standardized obstetric hemorrhage protocols, the bill aims to ensure all hospitals follow best practices, which could reduce preventable maternal deaths and complications by minimizing variation in care.
Emphasizes accountability and data tracking. Hospitals must report relevant data to the state health department, enabling oversight and allowing policymakers to monitor trends, identify gaps, and target quality improvement efforts more effectively.
Promotes continuous improvement. Required periodic updates to protocols and the use of state-endorsed toolkits and simulation training push hospitals to stay current with evolving evidence and maintain readiness, rather than treating compliance as a one-time task.
Addresses system-level gaps. Including provisions for triage and transfer to higher-level facilities ensures that hospitals prepare for worst-case scenarios and have clear plans for escalating care, which is especially important for smaller or lower-resourced facilities.
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Who cares
Hospitals
They would have to adopt, implement, periodically update and submit obstetric hemorrhage protocols covering early recognition, multidisciplinary response, data reporting and transfer to higher-level facilities when needed.
New York State Department of Health
The commissioner would have to provide guidance, develop or identify a hemorrhage management toolkit and report hospital data to legislative leaders every two years.
Hospital obstetric care teams
Required protocols would guide their risk assessments, recognition of hemorrhage and coordinated response.
Patients experiencing obstetric hemorrhage
Hospitals would be required to have response plans addressing triage and transfer to higher-level facilities if needed.
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Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
History
- Approval memo.51
- Signed chap.662
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 41–19
- 3rd reading cal.396
- Substituted for S4498A
- Referred to health
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.173
- Reported
Show 3 earlier actions
- Print number 6962a
- Amend and recommit 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.
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Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6962--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the establishment of obstetric hemorrhage protocols
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2803-n of the public health law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
(c) (i) The commissioner shall provide guidance to hospitals on obstetric hemorrhage protocols, in consultation with clinical experts, and develop or identify an existing toolkit on obstetric hemorrhage management, which may include a hemorrhage care checklist for use by hospitals as part of the protocols and guidance on simulation training. The commissioner shall report to the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on data reported to the department under this paragraph within two years from the effective date of this paragraph, and every two years thereafter.
(ii) The hospital shall adopt, implement, periodically update and submit to the department standard protocols for management of obstetric hemorrhage. Such protocols shall address early recognition and assessment, readiness to respond in a multidisciplinary manner, and data reporting to the department sufficient for the department to monitor and report pursuant to this paragraph. Such protocols shall utilize risk assessment tools such as the toolkit established or identified by the department under this paragraph and shall include a response plan providing for the triage and transfer to higher level facilities if needed.
§ 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of health shall make regulations and take other actions reasonably necessary to implement this act on that date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10979-02-9
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