NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7020

Senate Bill S7020

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires any hospital that provides birthing services to provide written, educational material containing information about premature, newborn infants

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2019-S7020 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3618
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §2803-w, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: A4715
2011-2012: A2023
2013-2014: A2266
2015-2016: A1851
2017-2018: A399
2021-2022: S182, A5244
2023-2024: S2281, A4313

2019-S7020 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires any hospital that provides birthing services to provide written, educational material containing information about premature newborn infants.

2019-S7020 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7020

SPONSOR: KAPLAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to patient discharge
information concerning certain premature newborn infants

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill would require any hospital that provides birthing services to
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 gesta-
tional age.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

New section 2803-v of the public health law is created requiring written
education information be provided by hospitals that provide birthing
services to those caring for newborn infants who are born premature at

less than thirty-seven weeks gestational age. This section sets stand-
ards for the content of the written material, including, but not limited
to: the unique health issues affecting infants born premature; the prop-
er care needs of premature infants; infectious disease awareness and
methods to prevent or minimize infections common to premature infants;
and community resources to assist parents and family members with the
care and support of premature infants. The section also requires that
the 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 2 years.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The hospital discharge and follow-up care of premature infants needs to
be improved. A great amount of attention is focused on neonatal inten-
sive care of extremely premature infants, but those infants born late
preterm are often grouped with full-term infants, which places them at
risk in terms of continued follow-up care once discharged from the
hospital. Premature infants, even close to full-term are subjected to
greater health risks and significant differences in clinical outcomes
than full-term infants during birth and after hospitalization. It is
important for parents and caregivers to have the information on hand
after leaving the hospital with their infant to be educated on risks and
care for this vulnerable population.  This bill would help improve the
healthcare quality and outcomes for infants born preterm by improving
hospital discharge and follow-up care of premature infants and reduce
re-hospitalization by providing written material and guidance to care-
givers of infants born premature.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-18: A399 referred to Health

2015-16: A1851 referred to Health

2013-14: A2266 referred to Health

2011-12: A2023 referred to Health
2009-10: A4715 referred to Health/S3837 referred to Health

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it
shall have become a law.

2019-S7020 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7020
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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 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-w to read as follows:
   § 2803-W. 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.
   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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00418-01-9

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