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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Assembly Bill A8255
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CYMBROWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Michael J. Norris
2019-A8255 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A8255 (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-A8255 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8255 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y June 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health 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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