Relates to requiring the department of health to prepare a biennial report on the number of available ventilators at each hospital located within the state and to make recommendations on the number of ventilators to meet the needs of a pandemic or regional disease outbreak.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10186
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 24, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. ARROYO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT requiring the department of health to prepare a biennial report
on the number of available ventilators at each hospital located within
the state
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. a. The department of health shall prepare a report on the
number of available ventilators at each hospital located within the
state. Such report shall list every hospital and the number of ventila-
tors available within each hospital. Such list of hospitals shall be
divided into regional groups. For the purpose of this act, "regional
groups" shall mean the ten economic development regions established by
the New York state department of economic development pursuant to
section 230 of the economic development law.
b. Such report shall include an analysis on whether the current number
of ventilators available within each hospital and within each region are
adequate to address a pandemic, epidemic or disease outbreak in which a
main symptom is a life-threatening difficulty in breathing that can only
be treated with a ventilator.
c. Such report shall include the following:
(i) the age and life-span of all ventilators;
(ii) recommendations on any state expenditures needed to support the
purchase of new ventilators in order to replace any out-of-date, non-
functioning or poorly functioning ventilators;
(iii) recommendations on any funding needed to increase the number of
ventilators within the state to meet the needs of a pandemic, epidemic
or disease outbreak;
(iv) recommendations on the number of trained hospital staff necessary
if the number of ventilators is increased in each hospital; and
(v) recommendations for training hospital staff to adequately operate
such ventilators.
§ 2. The department of health shall deliver such report to the gover-
nor, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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