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BILL S825-2011: Relates to payments for residential health care facilities in Essex county
Relates to allowing residential health care facilities meeting certain requirements located in Essex county reimbursement at rate of forty percent above the rate set forth in 10 NYCRR section 86-2.10.
Sponsor: LITTLE
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S830-2011: Requires drug manufacturers to collect unused and expired drugs from hospitals and residential health care facilities for safe disposal
Requires drug manufacturers to collect unused and expired drugs from hospitals and residential health care facilities for environmentally sound disposal thereof.
Sponsor: STAVISKY
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S871-2011: Relates to the provision of evaluations, service coordination services and early intervention program services; repealer
Relates to the provision of evaluations, service coordination services and early intervention program services.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S873-2011: Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from certain other agencies
Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from the departments of environmental conservation and labor; provides that the purpose is to gather various environmental data to correlate with disease data; requires the cooperation of the state university of New York school of public health at Albany and Buffalo.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S873A-2011: Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from certain other agencies
Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from the departments of environmental conservation and labor; provides that the purpose is to gather various environmental data to correlate with disease data; requires the cooperation of the state university of New York school of public health at Albany and Buffalo.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S894-2011: Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral, or religious reasons
Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral, or religious reasons.
Sponsor: KRUEGER
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S908-2011: Relates to the health science research board's powers and duties with regard to breast cancer research grants and relates to the compilation of pesticide data
Relates to the health science research board's powers and duties with regard to breast cancer research grants; requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to include certain pesticide data in his or her annual report summarizing pesticide sales and use and provide such data to the public upon request; requires certain sellers and users of restricted pesticides to file an annual report using an electronic form developed by the department of environmental conservation.
Sponsor: KRUEGER
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S936-2011: Requires health department to promulgate rules regarding staffing standards for certain health care facilities and monitor compliance therewith
Requires the department of health to promulgate rules necessary to establish staffing standards for certain health care facilities; directs such facilities to file reports and post daily staffing levels to demonstrate compliance with such rules; provides that failure of a hospital to comply with the requirements of this section shall be deemed a violation and subjects such hospital to possible penalties and injunctions.
Sponsor: MARCELLINO
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S954-2011: Authorizes and directs the department of health to study potential health hazards from exposure to radio frequency energy emitted from cellular telephone towers
Authorizes and directs the department of health to study potential health hazards from exposure to radio frequency energy emitted from cellular telephone towers and facilities.
Sponsor: MARCELLINO
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S960-2011: Directs state agencies which apply for federal medical assistance waivers to post information relating thereto on the agency internet website
Directs state agencies which apply for federal medical assistance waivers to post information relating thereto on the agency internet website.
Sponsor: HANNON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S961-2011: Directs the department of health to post, on its internet website, the state's medical assistance plan and all amendments thereto
Directs the department of health to post, on its internet website, the state's medical assistance plan and all amendments thereto; provides that no provision of such plan shall take effect until it is posted on the internet website.
Sponsor: HANNON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S98-2011: Encourages voluntary, informed vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV)
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
BILL S980-2011: Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care
Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care by 15 million dollars for period 7/1/12 to 3/31/13, and by 20 million dollars annually thereafter for each period from April 1 to March 31.
Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S980A-2011: Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care
Increases medicaid reimbursement payment aggregate for private duty nursing services and care by 15 million dollars for period 7/1/12 to 3/31/13, and by 20 million dollars annually thereafter for each period from April 1 to March 31.
Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S98A-2011: Encourages voluntary, informed vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV)
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
BILL S766-2011: Authorizes physician assistants under the supervision of a physician to perform most medical services that a physician can perform
Authorizes physician assistants under the supervision of a physician to perform most medical services that a physician can perform, including the signing of death certificates.
Sponsor: YOUNG
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S7735A-2011: Enacts the "safe patient handling act"
Enacts the safe patient handling act to establish a statewide safe patient handling policy for health care facilities in the state; creates the New York state safe patient handling work group.
Sponsor: MAZIARZ
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S7773-2011: Direct the department of health to provide oversight of the transitioning of individuals to managed long term care operated by health maintenance organizations
Directs the department of health to provide oversight of the transitioning of individuals to managed long term care plans operated by health maintenance organizations.
Sponsor: HANNON
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S7778-2011: Relates to creating the 21st century workgroup for disease elimination and reduction
Relates to creating the 21st century workgroup for disease elimination and reduction; directs the study of the severity, frequency of occurrence, likelihood of recurrence, existing animal vaccines and potential human vaccines for tuberculosis, eastern equine encephalitis virus, Lyme disease, human immunodeficiency virus, and others as determined by the commissioner; requires report.
Sponsor: RITCHIE
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S78-2011: Requires cardiac screening of student athletes
Requires cardiac screening of student athletes; mandates coaches receive training in CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator.
Sponsor: PERALTA
Committee: HEALTH