Requires residential health care facilities to update residents, authorized family members, and guardians of residents of the presence of an infection and to have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for designating a separate cohort area.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1785--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, MAY, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed 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 requiring
infection updates and infection control planning in residential health
care facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (A) of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivi-
2 sion 12 of section 2803 of the public health law, as added by chapter
3 114 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
4 (A) to update authorized family members and guardians of infected
5 residents at least once per day and upon a change in a resident's condi-
6 tion and at least once a week to update all residents and authorized
7 families and guardians on the number of infections and deaths at the
8 facility, and to update all residents, authorized family members, and
9 guardians of residents at the facility within twelve hours of the
10 detection of the presence of an infection by a resident or staff member,
11 by electronic or such other means as may be selected by each resident,
12 authorized family member or guardian; and
13 § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of section
14 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a new clause (C) to
15 read as follows:
16 (C) a plan or procedure designating a separate cohort area during an
17 infectious disease outbreak in the residential health care facility for
18 the separation of residents that are suspected of being infectious,
19 including the creation of a designated infectious disease care unit; and
20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02899-03-1
