NY State Senate Bill 2015-S4060

Senate Bill S4060

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that hospital admission registration forms include the name of school attended by school-aged patients

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2015-S4060 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6427
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §§230-e, 2805-x & 2113, amd §2101, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S4089, A3548
2011-2012: S689, A3198
2013-2014: S131, A4729
2017-2018: A352
2019-2020: A6023
2021-2022: A1615
2023-2024: A6472

2015-S4060 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that hospital admission registration forms include the name of school attended by school-aged patients; provides a protocol for notification to parents.

2015-S4060 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S4060

TITLE OF BILL:

An  act  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
tals to obtain the name of the school attended by  school-aged  patients
and to include this information in their admission registration forms

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This  bill  provides that hospital, medical clinics and private practice
physicians include a request for the school grade and name of the school
attended by their school-aged patients name and that this information be
included as part of the written vital patient data  collected  prior  to
treatment  and  establishes a protocol for immediate notification of the
local department of health if said school-aged child is  diagnosed  with
an infectious and communicable disease.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

This bill adds section 2805-v of the public health law to require hospi-
tals,  medical  clinics and private practice physicians to request, upon
treatment of school-aged patients, the grade and name of the school that
said school-aged patient attends and to include such  inquiry  in  their
patient records. This bill further adds a new section 2113 to the public
health law establishing a protocol for the immediate notification of the

local  department of health, if said school-aged child is diagnosed with
an infectious and communicable  disease,  to  facilitate  the  immediate
initiation  of  inspection and additional notification protocols as soon
as practicable.

JUSTIFICATION:

The recent death of 12 year-old Omar Rivera, who attended  I.S.  211  in
Canarsie,   Brooklyn,   from  the  methicillin-resistant  Staphylococcus
aureus, commonly known as MRSA and the  increasing  number  of  reported
infected youth across the state, highlighted the need for health practi-
tioners  to  be  more  responsive  alerting the affected community as to
their exposure and the preventative measures they must immediately take.
By requiring hospitals, medical clinics and private practice  physicians
who  treat infected school-age children to ascertain the school locality
of exposure and potential infection at the  time  of  admission  and  to
promptly  pass  this  information  on to the local department of health,
this legislation will effectively help  to  reduce  the  possibility  of
long-term  exposure and infection within the affected school locality as
well as in the community in general.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.689 of 2011
01/05/11 REFERRED TO HEALTH 01/04/12 REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/09/13 REFERRED TO HEALTH 01/08/14 REFERRED TO HEALTH

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to state.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This  act shall take effect immediately. This legislation seek to reduce
the possibility of infection.

2015-S4060 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4060

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 26, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SAMPSON -- 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  requiring  hospi-
  tals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients
  and to include this information in their admission registration forms

  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
230-e to read as follows:
  S  230-E. REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. EVERY PHYSICIAN SHALL INQUIRE AND
DOCUMENT AS PART OF HIS  OR  HER  PATIENT  REGISTRATION,  THE  NAME  AND
ADDRESS  OF THE SCHOOL ATTENDED BY SUCH PHYSICIAN'S SCHOOL-AGED PATIENTS
AND INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION IN THE PATIENTS' MEDICAL REGISTRATION FORM.
  S 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new  section  2805-x
to read as follows:
  S  2805-X.  ADMISSION  REGISTRATION  REQUIREMENTS. ALL HOSPITALS SHALL
INQUIRE AND DOCUMENT THE NAME AND ADDRESS  OF  THE  SCHOOL  ATTENDED  BY
SCHOOL-AGED PATIENTS UPON ADMISSION, AND INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION ON THE
HOSPITALS' ADMISSION REGISTRATION FORM.
  S  3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2113 to
read as follows:
  S 2113. INFECTIOUS AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; NOTIFICATION PROTOCOL FOR
SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN. NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED TEN  OF
THIS  TITLE, THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE
MILLION OR MORE. 1. WHERE A SCHOOL-AGED PATIENT IS REGISTERED FOR TREAT-
MENT, ADMITTED WITH AN INFECTIOUS OR COMMUNICABLE  DISEASE  OR  ADMITTED
FOR  OBSERVATION TO RULE OUT AN INFECTIOUS OR COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, SUCH
HOSPITAL SHALL NOTIFY THE LOCAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH  IMMEDIATELY  AS
REQUIRED BY SECTION TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED ONE OF THIS TITLE. IN A CITY WITH
A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, HOSPITALS SHALL CONTACT THE DEPART-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03292-01-5

S. 4060                             2

MENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE TO INITIATE THE INSPECTION PROVIDED IN
SECTION 17-106 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
  2.  THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, AND IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF
ONE MILLION OR MORE THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL  HYGIENE,  SHALL
IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH NOTIFY THE SCHOOL
ATTENDED BY SUCH PATIENT AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE.
  3. THE SCHOOL  SHALL  IMMEDIATELY  FOLLOW  THE  NOTIFICATION  PROTOCOL
DEEMED  NECESSARY BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, OR IN A CITY WITH A
POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL
HYGIENE, IN NOTIFYING THE STUDENTS AND PARENTS OF SUCH SCHOOL.
  S 4. Subdivision 1 of section 2101 of the public health law is amended
to read as follows:
  1. Every physician shall immediately give  notice  of  every  case  of
communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it, to
the  health  officer  of  the  local  health district where such disease
occurs. WHERE SUCH CASE  INVOLVES  A  SCHOOL-AGED  PATIENT,  SUCH  LOCAL
HEALTH OFFICER SHALL IN CONSULTATION WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
NOTIFY  THE  SCHOOL  ATTENDED BY SUCH PATIENT AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AND
SUCH SCHOOL SHALL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE STUDENT AND PARENT NOTIFICATION
PROTOCOL, AS REFERENCED  IN  SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF  SECTION  TWENTY-ONE
HUNDRED  THIRTEEN  OF  THIS  TITLE.  NOTWITHSTANDING  SECTION TWENTY-ONE
HUNDRED TEN OF THIS TITLE, THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL APPLY TO A CITY WITH A
POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
  S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

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