Assembly Bill A7758

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Authorizes hospice residences to care for up to 16 patients

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A7758 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5534
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4002 & 4014, Pub Health L

2013-A7758 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes hospice residences to care for up to 16 patients.

2013-A7758 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7758

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 3, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. LIFTON, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
  hospice residences to care for up to 16 patients

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public  health  law,
as  amended  by  chapter  154 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
follows:
  2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is  resi-
dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose
of  providing  more  than two hospice patients but not more than [eight]
SIXTEEN hospice patients with hospice care,  which  may  include  dually
certified  hospice  in-patient  beds  UP  TO  TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE
HOSPICE RESIDENCE'S PATIENT CAPACITY.
  S 2.   Subdivision 1 of section 4014 of  the  public  health  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  410  of  the  laws  of 2007, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish a hospice  resi-
dence  pilot program. Such program, subject to the rules and regulations
of the commissioner, shall authorize the operation of not more than  ten
hospice residences operated for the purpose of providing[, notwithstand-
ing  the provisions of subdivision two-b of section four thousand two of
this article,] more than two hospice patients but not more than  sixteen
hospice  patients with hospice care.  The locations of the hospice resi-
dence pilot program shall be  geographically  disbursed  throughout  the
state  and approved by the commissioner. To the extent that patients may
access hospital or skilled nursing home care, the  care  plan  for  such
patients shall provide for such care.
  S  3.    This  act  shall  take effect immediately; provided, that the
amendments to sections 4002 and 4014 of the public health  law  made  by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11129-03-3

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