§ 522. Actions against persons rendering health care services at the
request of the division; defense and indemnification. The provisions of
section seventeen of the public officers law shall apply to any person
holding a license to practice a profession pursuant to article one
hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty-one-B, one hundred thirty-two,
one hundred thirty-three, one hundred thirty-six, one hundred
thirty-seven, one hundred thirty-nine, one hundred forty-one, one
hundred forty-three, one hundred fifty-six or one hundred fifty-nine of
the education law, who is rendering or has rendered professional
services authorized under such license while acting at the request of
the division or a facility of the division in providing health care and
treatment or professional consultation to residents of division
facilities, or to infants of residents while such infants are cared for
in division facilities pursuant to section five hundred sixteen of this
article, without regard to whether such health care and treatment or
professional consultation is provided within or without a division
facility.