Senate Bill S4308

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires hospitals to post information regarding the length of time a patient will wait in a hospital emergency department

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

  • 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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2015-S4308 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2827, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S2315

2015-S4308 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hospitals to post information regarding the length of time a patient will wait in a hospital emergency department in the waiting room and on the hospital website.

2015-S4308 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4308 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4308

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
  tals to post information regarding the length of time a  patient  will
  wait in a hospital emergency department

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

  Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
2827 to read as follows:
  S  2827.  PATIENTS  WAITING  FOR  EMERGENCY TREATMENT. HOSPITALS SHALL
PROMINENTLY POST IN THE PATIENT WAITING ROOMS OF EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS A
CLOCK, SIGN, OR OTHER DEVICE DISPLAYING THE APPROXIMATE  TIME  BEFORE  A
PATIENT AWAITING EMERGENCY TREATMENT SHALL BE SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN, NURSE
OR  OTHER  EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL FOR EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT.
HOSPITALS SHALL ALSO MAKE SUCH INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THEIR WEBSITE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09835-02-5

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