What's happening
Certified dietitians and nutritionists in New York may now prescribe and manage therapeutic diets in certain healthcare facilities.
Why it matters
Expands the professional role of certified dietitians and nutritionists. , allowing them to independently prescribe, manage, and monitor therapeutic diets—including specialized nutrition like enteral (tube feeding) and parenteral (IV feeding)—in various healthcare settings, not just under physician supervision.
Potentially speeds up patient care. in hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities by enabling dietitians and nutritionists to act directly, reducing delays that may occur while waiting for physician orders for nutritional therapies.
Increases the importance of facility oversight. , as the competency of dietitians and nutritionists to perform these expanded duties must be determined by the medical director or governing body of each facility, ensuring a safety check but also requiring administrative attention.
May improve nutrition management outcomes. for patients with complex dietary needs by leveraging the specialized expertise of dietitians and nutritionists, possibly reducing complications related to improper nutrition in institutional settings.
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Who cares
Certified dietitians and nutritionists
The bill would authorize them to prescribe, order and manage therapeutic diets, including enteral and parenteral nutrition, in covered facilities when the facility determines their competency.
Hospitals, diagnostic centers and treatment centers
The bill would allow qualified certified dietitians and nutritionists to oversee therapeutic diets in these settings, including hospital-based outpatient departments.
Nursing homes and residential health care facilities
The bill would extend this therapeutic-diet authority to certified dietitians and nutritionists working in these facilities.
Facility medical directors and governing bodies
They would determine the competency of certified dietitians and nutritionists to exercise the authority granted by the bill.
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Let Dietitians Prescribe Diets
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
31 Co-sponsors
- Donna Lupardo
- Walter T. Mosley
- Catalina Cruz
- Michaelle C. Solages
- Felix Ortiz
- Mark C. Johns
- Anthony D'Urso
- Marianne Buttenschon
- Inez E. Dickens
- Jo Anne Simon
- Jaime R. Williams
- Charles Barron
- Joe DeStefano
- Andrew Raia
- John T. McDonald III
- Taylor Darling
- David McDonough
- Peter Lawrence
- Kenneth Zebrowski
- Phil Steck
- Fred Thiele
- Steven Englebright
- Carmen E. Arroyo
- Al Taylor
- Richard Gottfried
- Brian D. Miller
- Jake Ashby
- Michael Montesano
- Angelo J. Morinello
- Melissa Miller
- Brian Barnwell
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to higher education
- Print number 7660a
- Amend (t) and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
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.
Let Dietitians Prescribe Diets
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7660--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the certification of dietitians and nutritionists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 8001 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a certified dietitian or certified nutritionist may prescribe, order, write, review, evaluate, monitor and manage therapeutic diets, including enteral and parenteral nutrition, in a hospital, including diagnostic center, treatment center, or hospital-based outpatient department, residential health care facility or nursing home or any other facility as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law when competency is determined by the medical director or governing body of such facility.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11593-02-9
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