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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including  statis-
   tics  on childbirth complications, fetal losses, and other injuries in
   information leaflets for maternity patients

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 62 of the  laws  of  1996  and  paragraph  (m)  as
 amended  by  chapter  431  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. Such leaflet shall also include statistics relating to  the  annual
 percentage  of maternity related procedures performed, MATERNAL OUTCOMES
 AND MATERNAL DEATHS at such hospital or birth center, as provided by the
 commissioner, including but not limited to the following:
   (a) THE ANNUAL NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL  DEATHS  RESULTING  FROM
 COMPLICATIONS  DURING  CHILDBIRTH, FOR THE PERIOD BETWEEN CHILDBIRTH AND
 SIX WEEKS AFTER DELIVERY, AND THE TOP SIX COMPLICATIONS  FROM  PREGNANCY
 AND  DELIVERY THAT RESULT IN SUCH DEATHS BROKEN DOWN BY THE AGE AND RACE
 OF THE MOTHER;
   (B) THE ANNUAL NUMBER OF THIRD TRIMESTER FETAL LOSSES AND  STILLBIRTHS
 OCCURRING THE HOSPITAL OR BIRTH CENTER;
   (C) THE ANNUAL NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF HEMORRHAGES AND INJURIES MOTH-
 ERS  SUSTAIN RELATED TO CHILDBIRTH INCLUDING DAMAGE TO TISSUE AND ORGANS
 DURING CESAREAN BIRTH, THIRD AND FOURTH DEGREE TEARING, BROKEN  DOWN  BY
 THE AGE AND RACE OF THE MOTHER;
   (D)  the  annual rate of cesarean sections, primary, repeat and total,
 performed at such facility;
   [(b)] (E) the  annual  percentage  of  women  with  previous  cesarean
 sections who have had a subsequent successful vaginal birth;
   [(c)] (F) the annual percentage of deliveries by midwives;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   [(d)]  (G)  the annual percentage of births utilizing electronic fetal
 monitoring listed on the basis of external and internal;
   [(e)](H)  the annual percentage of births utilizing forceps, listed on
 the basis of low forceps delivery and mid forceps delivery;
   [(f)] (I) the annual percentage of breech births delivered vaginally;
   [(g)] (J) the annual percentage of births utilizing analgesia;
   [(h)] (K) the annual percentage of births utilizing anesthesia includ-
 ing general, spinal, epidural, and paracervical listed on the  basis  of
 vaginal and cesarean births;
   [(i)]  (L)  the  annual  percentage  of  births utilizing induction of
 labor;
   [(j)] (M) the annual percentage of births  utilizing  augmentation  of
 labor;
   [(k)]  (N) the annual percentage of vaginal births utilizing episioto-
 mies;
   [(l)] (O) whether birthing rooms are available for use in the  facili-
 ty;
   [(m)]  (P)  whether  rooming-in  is  available in the facility, on the
 basis of twenty-four hours a day or daytime.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.