Assembly Bill A7760

                             
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                                   7760
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, BENEDETTO, COOK, COLTON, BRON-
   SON,  STIRPE,  McDONOUGH -- 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-bb to read as follows:
   §  2803-BB.  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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.