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Senate Bill S8613

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to collaborative programs for health workforce retraining and cross-training

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2017-S8613 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807-g, Pub Health L

2017-S8613 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to collaborative programs for health workforce retraining and cross-training for hospitals, home care and hospices.

2017-S8613 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8613 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8613
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  collaborative
   programs for health workforce retraining and cross-training
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 2807-g of the public health
 law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 1999, are amended to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  Eligible organizations shall include health worker unions, general
 hospitals, long-term care  facilities,  other  health  care  facilities,
 health  care facilities trade associations, labor-management committees,
 joint  labor-management  training  funds  established  pursuant  to  the
 provisions  of  the  Federal  Taft-Hartley  Act,  and educational insti-
 tutions.  ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS MAY INCLUDE COLLABORATIVE  MODELS  WITH
 CERTIFIED  HOME  HEALTH  AGENCIES,  LICENSED HOME CARE SERVICE AGENCIES,
 LONG TERM HOME HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS AND/OR HOSPICES  FOR  CROSS-TRAINING
 AND  CROSS-UTILIZATION  OF  FACILITY  NURSING,  THERAPY, SOCIAL WORK AND
 OTHER DIRECT CARE PERSONNEL TO MEET PATIENT AND COMMUNITY NEEDS  IN  THE
 CHANGING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
   4.  Eligible programs shall include programs which provide one or more
 of the following services in connection with training an eligible worker
 to: (i) obtain a new position, (ii) continue to meet the requirements of
 an existing position, or (iii) otherwise meet the  requirements  of  the
 changing  health care industry: (a) assessments to help determine train-
 ing needs; (b) remediation, including preparation in English for  speak-
 ers or writers of other languages, instruction in basic reading or math-
 ematics, or completion of requirements for a general equivalency diploma
 (GED); (c) basic skills development; (d) reorientation; [and] (e) skills
 and educational enhancement, including, where appropriate, the provision
 of  college  level or college degree course work; AND (F) CROSS-TRAINING
 WITH HOME CARE AND HOSPICE FOR THE PROVISION OF NURSING, THERAPY, SOCIAL
 WORK AND/OR  OTHER  DIRECT  CARE  SERVICES  IN  FACILITY  AND  COMMUNITY
 SETTINGS.   To the extent that an eligible program is providing services
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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