Relates to allergy awareness and training in restaurants; requires allergen awareness training; requires certification within thirty days after hire date.
Authorizes patients to designate an essential visitor who may assist the patient and perform certain duties on behalf of the patient, including communicating with facility staff regarding the needs of the patient, providing emotional stability and company, and requesting additional care or a change in the care plan.
Provides access to medical marihuana for an animal when a veterinarian determines such animal has any medical condition that may benefit from treatment with medical marihuana.
Requires each certificate of death to also be filed with the board of elections for the county in which the registrar is appointed and to mail a copy of the death certificate to the department of health and the board of elections in the county in which the person resided at the time of death.
Includes physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, respiratory therapists, respiratory therapy technicians, and recreational therapists within the existing statutory staffing standards for nursing homes.
Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study on the rates of reimbursement made through the New York state Medicaid durable medical equipment, orthotics, prosthetics and supplies program for rate adequacy and patient access.
Enacts the "donor-conceived person protection act" to ensure that reproductive tissue banks, licensed by the department of health, collect and verify medical information from any donor it procures reproductive tissue from and to disseminate such information to a recipient before a recipient purchases or otherwise receives such tissue, and to donor-conceived persons, if any, when such persons turn eighteen years of age or earlier upon consent of the recipient parent or guardian; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Refers individuals to appropriate service providers that are able to provide services to such individual within seventy-two hours for substance use disorders.
Requires that functional epinephrine auto-injector devices be made available in places of public assembly and that at least one employee or volunteer of such place of public assembly be trained in its proper operation and use and be present at each facility function.
Limits the off label use of antipsychotic drugs with black box warnings on elderly patients with dementia; provides for professional misconduct for any health care professional who uses such drug on such patient.
Relates to safe staffing levels at nursing homes; requires the department of health to give significant weight to labor supply shortages in particular regions during any declared statewide disaster emergency.
Requires that a copy of every assessment or evaluation conducted to determine a recipient's need for home care assistance shall be promptly provided to the recipient or the recipient's designee.
Waives certain requirements of the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children during a state of emergency declared as a result of a public health crisis, including: allowing any unused portions of any monthly allowances to carry over from month to month; increasing the amount of the monetary limit of not less than sixty percent for the purchase of fresh fruit and vegetables.