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Assembly Bill A2857

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that confidential visits by certain persons with patients of residential health care facilities shall not be unreasonably restricted

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2009-A2857 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2803-c, Pub Health L

2009-A2857 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that no residential health care facility restrict access to the facility by family members, guardians, friends, legal representatives, or representatives of community organizations who provide assistance in resolving problems and complaints concerning care and treatment; provides for common area for visiting and a visiting period except in extraordinary circumstances (such as health emergencies), of at least 10 hours within a 24-hour period, including at least two meal periods; requires written record upon denial of access to be maintained; imposes civil penalty not to exceed fifty dollars for each day such access was denied.

2009-A2857 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A2857 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2857

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, LANCMAN, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored
  by -- M. of A. CLARK, COOK, GANTT, GLICK, HIKIND, McENENY,  PAULIN  --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health law, in relation to confidential
  visits with patients of residential health care facilities

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  l  of  subdivision  3 of section 2803-c of the
public health law, as amended by chapter 719 of the  laws  of  1989,  is
amended to read as follows:
  1.  (I)  Pursuant  to  regulations promulgated by the commissioner, no
facility or individual and no general hospital providing medical care to
persons having been admitted from such facilities  or  from  adult  care
facilities covered by the provisions of section four hundred sixty-one-b
of  the  social  services  law, or to applicants for readmission to such
facilities or to adult care facilities  covered  by  the  provisions  of
section  four  hundred  sixty-one-b  of  the  social services law, shall
restrict or prohibit the access to the facility or general hospital  nor
interfere  with the performance of the official duties, including confi-
dential visits with residents, of duly designated persons  participating
in  the  long  term  care ombudsman program as provided for in [sections
five hundred forty-four and five hundred forty-five] SECTION TWO HUNDRED
EIGHTEEN of the [executive] ELDER law.
  (II) IN ADDITION, NO FACILITY WHICH PROVIDES RESIDENTIAL  HEALTH  CARE
AND SERVICES FOR RESIDENT PATIENTS SHALL RESTRICT OR PROHIBIT THE ACCESS
TO THE FACILITY NOR INTERFERE WITH CONFIDENTIAL VISITS WITH PATIENTS BY:
  (A)  FAMILY  MEMBERS, GUARDIANS, FRIENDS OF AN INDIVIDUAL PATIENT, AND
LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES, LEGAL COUNSELS AND CASE MANAGERS.
  (B)  AN  EMPLOYEE  OR  REPRESENTATIVE  OF  ANY   PUBLIC   OR   PRIVATE
NOT-FOR-PROFIT  CORPORATION, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OR ASSOCIATION WHOSE
PRIMARY PURPOSES FOR VISITING INCLUDE ASSISTING  PATIENTS  IN  RESOLVING

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06359-01-9
              

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