Requires the department of health to develop, maintain, and distribute to practicing and licensed physicians in the state a resource library related to continuing medical education and training opportunities regarding nutrition.
Relates to the continuity of family planning services in the state; establishes a family planning program in the department of health to ensure the continuity of family planning services in the state; covers family planning providers who lost eligibility for federal funding under Title X of the Federal Public Health Service Act.
Relates to the treatment of domestic violence victims and documentation of injury and evidence; provides the type of evidence to be collected and maintained; provides that the office of victim services shall cover the costs of the domestic violence forensic exam; makes related provisions.
Directs the commissioner of health, in conjunction with the commissioners of mental health and veterans' services, to conduct a study on the use of ibogaine as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, and the increasing rate of PTSD diagnoses in veterans and first responders.
Includes oral nicotine pouches in the prohibition against selling or offering for sale at retail, or distribution of any flavored vapor product intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine.
Directs the department of health to conduct a study relating to opening a new hospital in southeast Queens; requires the department of health to deliver a copy of the findings of the study conducted and any legislative recommendations to the governor and the legislature.
Requires federally qualified health centers and rural health centers cover the cost of all ovulation enhancing drugs dispensed and other covered entities pursuant to section 340B of the federal public health service act.
Expands the scope of the temporary operator program permitting the commissioner of health to appoint an operator if a facility experiences serious financial instability or conditions that seriously endanger the life, health or safety of residents or patients.
Requires the commissioner of health to include in annual reports information regarding the cost and increase in cost of the ten prescription drugs on which the state expends the most money and which have had certain costs increased by fifty percent or more over the past five years or by ten percent or more during the previous calendar year.
Requires the state Medicaid director to establish a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees under increased reimbursement rates.
Amends various provisions governing certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks; provides for the department of health to prescribe minimum qualifications; provides that certificates shall cover all laboratory work; increases fees; requires work standards for cytotechnologists to be as stringent as federal regulations; removes registration requirement.