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Assembly Bill A11469

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Limits the number of transitional care unit demonstration programs in counties with a population of more than one million

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2009-A11469 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง2802-b, Pub Health L

2009-A11469 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the number of transitional care unit demonstration programs in counties with a population of more than one million.

2009-A11469 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  11469

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 16, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Schimel) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  limiting  the
  number  of  transitional  care unit demonstration programs in counties
  with a population of more than one million

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
2802-b to read as follows:
  S 2802-B. TRANSITIONAL CARE UNIT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; COUNTIES WITH
A POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION.   1. NO  ADDITIONAL  TRANSITIONAL
CARE  UNIT  DEMONSTRATION  PROGRAMS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED IN TWO THOUSAND
TEN AND TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL LOCATED IN A COUNTY OF
NEW YORK STATE WITH A POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION IN WHICH THERE
ARE TWO OR MORE LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES  WITHIN  A  RADIUS  OF  TWENTY
MILES  OF  A  GENERAL HOSPITAL, AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT SUCH LONG TERM
CARE FACILITIES HAVE A MINIMUM OF THIRTY-FIVE POST  ACUTE  CARE  OR  SUB
ACUTE  CARE BEDS AND HAVE PROVIDED POST ACUTE CARE OR SUB ACUTE CARE FOR
OLDER ADULTS FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE OR MORE YEARS.
  2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "TRANSITIONAL  CARE"  SHALL  MEAN
SUB  ACUTE  CARE SERVICES PROVIDED TO PATIENTS OF A GENERAL HOSPITAL WHO
NO LONGER REQUIRE ACUTE CARE GENERAL HOSPITAL  INPATIENT  SERVICES,  BUT
CONTINUE TO NEED SPECIALIZED MEDICAL, NURSING, AND OTHER HOSPITAL ANCIL-
LARY SERVICES AND ARE NOT YET APPROPRIATE FOR DISCHARGE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17516-03-0

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