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Assembly Bill A4715

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires any hospital that provides birthing services to provide written, educational material containing information about premature, newborn infants

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2009-A4715 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3837
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง2803-s, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A2023
2013-2014: A2266
2015-2016: A1851
2017-2018: A399
2019-2020: A3618
2021-2022: A5244
2023-2024: A4313
2025-2026: A7760

2009-A4715 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires any hospital that provides birthing services to provide written, educational material containing information about premature, newborn infants.

2009-A4715 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4715

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 5, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. JOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to patient  discharge
  information concerning certain premature newborn infants

  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
2803-s to read as follows:
  S 2803-S. PATIENT DISCHARGE INFORMATION. 1. ANY HOSPITAL THAT PROVIDES
BIRTHING SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE WRITTEN, EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL CONTAINING
INFORMATION  ABOUT  THE  POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS, PROPER CARE AND SUPPORT
ASSOCIATED WITH NEWBORN INFANTS WHO ARE  BORN  PREMATURE  AT  LESS  THAN
THIRTY-SEVEN  WEEKS  GESTATIONAL  AGE.  THE  WRITTEN  INFORMATION  SHALL
INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
  (A) THE UNIQUE HEALTH ISSUES AFFECTING INFANTS  BORN  PREMATURE,  SUCH
AS:    INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS; NUTRITIONAL CHALLENGES;
INFECTION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE (BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA); VISION AND
HEARING  IMPAIRMENT;  BREATHING  PROBLEMS;  FEEDING;  MAINTAINING   BODY
TEMPERATURE;  JAUNDICE;  HYPERACTIVITY;  INFANT  MORTALITY AND LONG-TERM
COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FINE MOTOR SKILLS, READING, WRITING, MATH-
EMATICS AND SPEAKING;
  (B) THE PROPER CARE NEEDS OF PREMATURE INFANTS, DEVELOPMENTAL  SCREEN-
INGS  AND  MONITORING  AND  HEALTHCARE  SERVICES  AVAILABLE TO PREMATURE
INFANTS;
  (C) INFECTIOUS DISEASE AWARENESS AND METHODS TO  PREVENT  OR  MINIMIZE
INFECTIONS COMMON TO PREMATURE INFANTS; AND
  (D)  COMMUNITY RESOURCES TO ASSIST PARENTS AND FAMILY MEMBERS WITH THE
CARE AND SUPPORT OF PREMATURE INFANTS.
  2. SUCH MATERIALS SHALL  BE  WRITTEN  IN  CLEAR  LANGUAGE  TO  EDUCATE
PARENTS  OF PREMATURE INFANTS ACROSS A VARIETY OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUSES
AND SHALL BE UPDATED AT LEAST EVERY TWO YEARS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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