Senate Bill S6820

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to prehospital emergency medical care for and transportation of stroke patients

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S6820 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8255
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3004, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S2120, A3529

2019-S6820 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of health, the state emergency medical services council and the regional emergency medical services council to update their policies, procedures, and protocols for prehospital emergency medical care and transportation related to the assessment, treatment and transport of stroke patients by a provider of an emergency medical service or an ambulance service.

2019-S6820 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6820 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6820
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 30, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prehospital  emer-
   gency medical care policies and procedures for certain stroke patients
 
   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
 3004 to read as follows:
   § 3004. PREHOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE AND TRANSPORTATION; CERTAIN
 STROKE  PATIENTS.  THE  DEPARTMENT, THE STATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
 COUNCIL AND THE REGIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNCIL SHALL UPDATE
 THEIR POLICIES, PROCEDURES,  AND  PROTOCOLS  FOR  PREHOSPITAL  EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL CARE AND TRANSPORTATION RELATED TO THE ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT AND
 TRANSPORT  OF  STROKE  PATIENTS  BY  A  PROVIDER OF AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL
 SERVICE OR AN AMBULANCE SERVICE. SUCH POLICIES, PROCEDURES,  AND  PROTO-
 COLS  SHALL  INCLUDE POINT-OF-ENTRY CRITERIA AND PLAN FOR THE TRIAGE AND
 TRANSPORT OF STROKE PATIENTS WHO  MAY  HAVE  AN  EMERGENT  LARGE  VESSEL
 OCCLUSION,  TO THE MOST APPROPRIATE FACILITY THAT OFFERS NEUROENDOVASCU-
 LAR TREATMENT WITHIN A SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME OF  ONSET  OF  SYMPTOMS.  FOR
 PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, AN "APPROPRIATE FACILITY THAT OFFERS NEUROEN-
 DOVASCULAR TREATMENT" SHALL MEAN A HOSPITAL, AS DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION
 ONE  OF SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER, WITH THE CAPA-
 BILITIES TO PROPERLY ASSESS, DIAGNOSE, USING ADVANCED  IMAGING  DEVICES,
 AND TREAT STROKE PATIENTS WITH COMPLEX CASES OF ISCHEMIC STROKE, INCLUD-
 ING  EMERGENT  LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION CAUSED BY THE LOSS OF BLOOD SUPPLY
 TO A PART OF THE BRAIN, OR HEMORRHAGIC STROKE, CAUSED BY BLEEDING OF THE
 BRAIN, AND REQUIRING IMMEDIATE TREATMENT AT A HOSPITAL  WITH  A  TRAINED
 TEAM  OF NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGEONS, VASCULAR NEUROLOGISTS AND ASSIST-
 ING MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND THE ABILITY TO PERFORM A MECHANICAL  THROMBEC-
 TOMY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS PER DAY, SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK TO TREAT THE STROKE.
 THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  IDENTIFY  FACILITIES THAT SATISFY SUCH CRITERIA.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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