NY State Senate Bill 2015-S5255

Senate Bill S5255

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes hospice residences to care for up to 25 patients in cities having a population of one million or more

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2015-S5255 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1311
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§4002 & 4014, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S111, A699
2019-2020: S230

2015-S5255 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes hospice residences to care for up to 25 patients in cities having a population of one million or more.

2015-S5255 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S5255

TITLE  OF  BILL:   An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
authorizing hospice residences to care for up to 25 patients

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The bill would expand access to hospice care by allowing  hospice  resi-
dences to care for up to 25 patients.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section  1  amends  the  definition  of "hospice residence" under public
health law to allow for up to  25  patients  per  hospice  residence  in
cities having a population of one million or more.

Section 2 incorporates the new definition of "hospice residence" from

Section 1 into authorized hospice residence pilot programs.

Section 3 states that the act and its amendments shall take effect imme-
diately  and  shall apply to hospice residences established prior to the
effective date of the act as  well  as  hospice  residences  established
thereafter.

JUSTIFICATION:

Section  4000  of  New  York's  public health law declares "hospice is a
socially and financially beneficial alternative to conventional curative
care for those afflicted by terminal illness." The Legislature has found
that hospice's unique blend of palliative and supportive care can  "meet
the  stresses associated with illness, death and bereavement through the
innovation and reorganization of home and traditional  inpatient  health
services." In its recognition of hospices effectiveness, the Legislature
has further declared its intention that hospice be made available to all
who seek it.

This  bill  expands  the  availability of hospice care by increasing the
number of patients that can be cared for in hospice  residences  in  New
York  City.  Hospice  residences, where more than two patients are cared
for under one roof, lower costs of caring for patients in hospital  beds
and  nursing  homes.  This  bill  will therefore lower the State's costs
while providing more patients with the  option  of  receiving  hospice's
palliative and supportive care.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect immediately.

2015-S5255 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  5255

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 11, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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  authorizing
  hospice residences to care for up to 25 patients

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public  health  law,
as  amended  by  chapter  512 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
follows:
  2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is  resi-
dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose
of  providing  more  than two hospice patients but not more than sixteen
hospice patients OR, IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION  OF  ONE  MILLION  OR
MORE,  NOT  MORE  THAN  TWENTY-FIVE HOSPICE PATIENTS, with hospice care,
which may include dually certified hospice in-patient beds up  to  twen-
ty-five percent of the hospice residence's patient capacity.
  S  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  4014  of the public health law, as
amended by chapter 512 of the laws  of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish a hospice resi-
dence pilot program. Such program, subject to the rules and  regulations
of  the commissioner, shall authorize the operation of not more than ten
hospice residences operated for the purpose of providing more  than  two
hospice  patients  but  not  more  than  sixteen hospice patients OR, IN
CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, NOT MORE  THAN  TWEN-
TY-FIVE  HOSPICE  PATIENTS,  with  hospice  care.  The  locations of the
hospice  residence  pilot  program  shall  be  geographically  disbursed
throughout  the  state  and  approved by the commissioner. To the extent
that patients may access hospital or skilled nursing home care, the care
plan for such patients shall provide for such care.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00858-01-5

S. 5255                             2

  S 3. This act shall take effect  immediately  and  the  amendments  to
sections 4002 and 4014 of the public health law made by sections one and
two  of  this act shall apply to hospice residences established prior to
the effective date of this act as well as those created thereafter.

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