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NY S07483
Bill
Status
10/1/2010
Primary Sponsor
Pedro Espada
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AI Summary
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Requires the Commissioner of Health to hold a public community forum within 30 days after a general hospital closure to gather input on the closure's impact on healthcare access for the surrounding community, including medical assistance recipients, uninsured individuals, and underserved populations.
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Forum participants must include community members, healthcare providers, labor unions, payers, businesses, and consumers, who are afforded reasonable opportunity to speak on relevant matters.
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Within 60 days after holding the forum, the Commissioner must publish on the Department's website information about the closure's anticipated impact on healthcare access, specific measures taken to address the impact, and further recommendations for healthcare services in affected communities.
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Community forums must be held at a location reasonably close to the closed hospital and announced at least 10 days before the forum date.
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The act takes effect immediately and applies only to general hospitals closing on or after the effective date.
Legislative Description
Enacts the "hospital closure planning act"; provides that whenever a general hospital closes, the commissioner of health shall within thirty days of being notified of such closure, hold a public hearing at a location within the geographic area served by such general hospital to solicit testimony concerning the extent to which such closure will result in the reduction or elimination of health care services in the affected community, and options and proposals for replacing or enhancing such health care services through other means in order to meet the needs of residents in the affected community; makes related provisions.
Last Action
SIGNED CHAP.541
10/1/2010