2805-I – Treatment of Sexual Offense Victims and Maintenance of Evidence in a Sexual Offense.
§ 2805-i. Treatment of sexual offense victims and maintenance of evidence in a sexual offense. 1. Every hospital providing treatment to alleged victims of a sexual offense shall be responsible for: (a) maintaining sexual offense evidence and the chain of custody as provided in subdivision two of this section; (b) informing sexual offense victims of […]
2805-J – Medical, Dental and Podiatric Malpractice Prevention Program.
§ 2805-j. Medical, dental and podiatric malpractice prevention program. 1. Every hospital shall maintain a coordinated program for the identification and prevention of medical, dental and podiatric malpractice. Such program shall include at least the following: (a) The establishment of a quality assurance committee with the responsibility to review the services rendered in the hospital […]
2805-K – Investigations Prior to Granting or Renewing Privileges.
§ 2805-k. Investigations prior to granting or renewing privileges. 1. Prior to granting or renewing professional privileges or association of any physician, dentist or podiatrist or hiring a physician, dentist or podiatrist, a hospital or facility approved pursuant to this article shall request from the physician, dentist or podiatrist and the physician, dentist or podiatrist […]
2805-L – Adverse Event Reporting.
§ 2805-l. Adverse event reporting. 1. (a) All hospitals shall be required to report events described by subdivision two of this section to the department in a manner and within time periods as may be specified by regulation of the department. (b) For purposes of this section, “hospital” means any general hospital or diagnostic and […]
2805-M – Confidentiality.
§ 2805-m. Confidentiality. 1. The information required to be collected and maintained pursuant to sections twenty-eight hundred five-j and twenty-eight hundred five-k of this article, reports required to be submitted pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred five-l of this article and any incident reporting requirements imposed upon diagnostic and treatment centers pursuant to the provisions of […]
2805-N – Child Abuse Prevention.
§ 2805-n. Child abuse prevention. All hospitals shall: (i) develop, maintain and disseminate written policies and procedures pursuant to title six of article six of the social services law and applicable provisions of article ten of the family court act, regarding the mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect, reporting procedures and obligations of persons […]
2805-O – Identification of Veterans and Their Spouses by Nursing Homes, Residential Health Care Facilities, and Adult Care Facilities.
§ 2805-o. Identification of veterans and their spouses by nursing homes, residential health care facilities, and adult care facilities. 1. Every nursing home and residential health care facility as defined in subdivisions two and three of section two thousand eight hundred one of this article and every adult care facility licensed and certified by the […]
2805-P – Emergency Treatment of Rape Survivors.
§ 2805-p. Emergency treatment of rape survivors. 1. As used in this section: (a) “Emergency contraception” shall mean one or more prescription drugs used separately or in combination to be administered or self-administered by a patient to prevent pregnancy within a medically recommended amount of time after sexual intercourse and dispensed for that purpose in […]
2805-Q – Hospital Visitation by Domestic Partner.
§ 2805-q. Hospital visitation by domestic partner. 1. No domestic partner or surrogate as defined by subdivision twenty-nine of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-four-a of this chapter shall be denied any rights of visitation of his or her domestic partner or of the patient or resident for whom he or she is the surrogate, when such […]
2805-R – Patients Unable to Verbally Communicate.
§ 2805-r. Patients unable to verbally communicate. 1. The department shall make regulations concerning the treatment of general hospital patients who are unable to verbally communicate, for whatever reason, with a health care practitioner or aide. 2. Such regulations shall establish standards for a patient to have present during his or her period of admission […]