Relates to prehospital emergency medical services for individuals in substance use recovery; requires policies, procedures, and protocols to be developed to identify individuals in substance use recovery and to avoid treatment that could compromise such individuals' recovery.
Requires hotels and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the premises; requires the development and administration of training on methods and procedures for the eradication of bedbugs upon hiring and each year thereafter.
Relates to the publication of immunization information; requires schools to provide immunization information to the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to make immunization information, including rates of immunization, available on its website.
Directs the department of health to develop and implement a residency program initiative to service medically underserved areas; makes an appropriation therefor.
Relates to disputes between a surrogate and a hospital or individual health care provider; cites when the requirement of a provider to provide life-sustaining treatment following a surrogate's directive does not apply.
Relates to providing information to patients and the public on policy-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each health care facility a list of its policy-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.
Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that translations of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary languages; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.