Enacts the "behavioral health and long-term care act"; provides for the establishment of a behavioral health and long-term care plan. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Requires cardiac screening of student athletes; mandates coaches receive training in CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Encourages, through the provision of written educational materials and consultation, the voluntary vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) for school-aged children by their parents or guardians. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Encourages, through the provision of written educational materials and consultation, the voluntary vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) for school-aged children by their parents or guardians. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Relates to establishing the NYS prescription medication cost containment program. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Relates to increasing the availability of adult day care programs in counties with a population of more than 1,332,650 and less than 1,334,544. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Relates to increasing the availability of adult day care programs in counties with a population of more than 1,332,650 and less than 1,334,544. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for all medical professionals as part of their licensing requirements; requires biennial training in the non-discriminatory provision of medical services for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, dental hygienists, registered and licensed practical nurses, podiatrists, and optometrists; authorizes the department of education to develop the training in consultation with the department of health and other experts; provides for documentation and exemption from the requirements; provides for a public education program on minority health; appropriates $100,000 therefor. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for all medical professionals as part of their licensing requirements; requires biennial training in the non-discriminatory provision of medical services for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, dental hygienists, registered and licensed practical nurses, podiatrists, and optometrists; authorizes the department of education to develop the training in consultation with the department of health and other experts; provides for documentation and exemption from the requirements; provides for a public education program on minority health; appropriates $100,000 therefor. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes the to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Requires hospitals to notify patients of a non-participating physician or health care provider providing treatment at a participating hospital. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH

Makes provisions relating to the disclosure of special care offered to persons with Alzheimer's disease or dementia; requires any facility that offers, advertises, markets or otherwise promotes itself as providing Alzheimer's and dementia special care must disclose the form of care or treatment provided that distinguishes it as being especially applicable or suitable for persons diagnosed with Alzheimer's, dementia or other disorders; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate necessary rules and regulations; provides for a five hundred dollar civil penalty for a violation. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH

Makes provisions regarding safety of certain employees of the office of mental health: provides that the commissioner of the office of mental health shall direct that in outpatient programs no employee shall be required to enter the residence of a person with a serious mental illness unless said employee is accompanied by at least one other employee of the program or other appropriate person; provides that the commissioner shall also direct that all such employees shall, when they are required to enter the residence of a recipient of services, be supplied with a wireless telephone or comparable device for the purposes of emergency communications; provides that the commissioner shall direct that employees serving as intensive case managers receive annual training in safety measures and violence prevention and that the commissioner shall insure the availability of such training; provides that funds appropriated for the operation of outpatient programs shall be expended to insure that there shall be at least one intensive case manager for each twelve persons receiving such services, and that there shall be no more than twelve persons receiving services from any one assertive case management team; directs the division of the budget to cause positions to be promptly filled in order to maintain said ratios. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Enacts the New York state pharmaceutical drug manufacturer and wholesaler disclosure act; requires pharmaceutical drug manufacturers and wholesalers to annually report to the New York department of health, for disclosure to the general public, all of its gifts to health care practitioners that prescribe drugs when such gifts have a value of seventy-five dollars or more; authorizes the commissioner of health to impose penalties and promulgate necessary rules and regulations. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH

Creates the New York state safe patient handling task force to create policies for patient care safety in health care facilities. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH

Establishes a central registry of medical personnel terminated for cause. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH

Establishes a central registry of medical personnel terminated for cause. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH

Increases state reimbursement for care, treatment, maintenance and nursing services in nursing homes in certain eligible social services districts. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH

Increases state reimbursement for care, treatment, maintenance and nursing services in nursing homes in certain eligible social services districts. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH