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Senate Bill S7717

Signed By Governor

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires every general hospital and nursing home to comply with Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation for antimicrobial stewardship programs in health care facilities

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2021-S7717 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8787
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-z, Pub Health L (as proposed in S.2191 & A.5847)

2021-S7717 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires every general hospital and nursing home to comply with Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation for antimicrobial stewardship programs in health care facilities, including training requirements regarding antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention and control.

2021-S7717 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7717 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7717
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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  requiring  every
   general hospital and nursing home to comply with Medicare and Medicaid
   conditions  of participation for antimicrobial stewardship programs in
   health care  facilities,  including  training  requirements  regarding
   antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention and control
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2803-z of the public health  law,  as  added  by  a
 chapter  of the laws of 2021, amending the public health law relating to
 antimicrobial resistance prevention and education, as proposed in legis-
 lative bills numbers S. 2191 and A. 5847, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2803-z. Antimicrobial resistance prevention and education. 1.  Every
 general hospital and nursing home  shall  [establish  and  implement  an
 antimicrobial stewardship program that meets or exceeds] COMPLY WITH AND
 MEET  ALL  APPLICABLE  REQUIREMENTS OF THE federal Medicare and Medicaid
 conditions of participation for antimicrobial  stewardship  programs  in
 health  care facilities, INCLUDING TRAINING REQUIREMENTS REGARDING ANTI-
 MICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL. Additionally,
 such program shall incorporate an ongoing process to measure the  impact
 of  the  program,  including review, at least annually, of antimicrobial
 utilization data with development of response plans for high or increas-
 ing utilization.
   2. [Every general hospital and nursing home shall establish and imple-
 ment  training  regarding   antimicrobial   resistance   and   infection
 prevention and control, or ensure that such training has taken place, in
 addition  to or within existing infection control training programs, for
 all individuals licensed or certified pursuant to  title  eight  of  the
 education  law  and  who are required to complete coursework or training
 regarding infection control pursuant to section two hundred  thirty-nine
 of  this  chapter  or section sixty-five hundred five-b of the education
 law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06471-02-2

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