Relates to municipal limited health care service facilities; diagnostic or treatment centers or other facilities managed and administered by a local health department for the purpose of providing limited health care services.
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.
Provides for coordination between the department of health and the state long-term care ombudsman regarding residential health care facilities, including such facilities' compliance with state and federal law, and histories of complaints.
Relates to creating a nursing home resident quality and safety study to study the implementation of a globally recognized frailty index score methodology in nursing homes in New York state.
Requires that newborns are tested for duchenne muscular dystrophy using a test validated by the Wadsworth center for laboratories and research; directs the Wadsworth center for laboratories and research to begin the process of testing validation upon the development of a test for duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations; prohibits clauses which entitle reimbursement at the lowest price or rate; prohibits contracts which restrict referral of patients based solely upon a health care provider's status with a managed care product; prohibits contracts which allow for the substitution of a pharmaceutical drug or agent by any person other than the prescribing health care professional.
Prohibits the keeping of inventory, storage, warehouse, processing, packaging, shipping or distributing of flavored vapor products near where vapor or tobacco products are sold at retail or wholesale.