A 1988: Establishes an age-friendly health system technical assistance center to provide assistance in relation to age-friendly health systems; relates to hospital performance data.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1988 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to grants for geria- tric emergency departments; in relation to establishing a center for technical assistance relating to age-friendly health systems; and in relation to hospital performance data The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "age- 2 friendly health system enhancement act". 3 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2832 to 4 read as follows: 5 § 2832. Geriatric emergency departments. Subject to an appropriation 6 therefor, the commissioner shall award accredited level two geriatric 7 emergency departments in the state a grant of five hundred thousand 8 dollars per year for three years with the condition that each department 9 grantee shall reach level one status within twenty-four months of 10 receiving the first grant award. 11 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public health law is amended 12 by adding a new paragraph (x) to read as follows: 13 (x) establish, in conjunction with the office for the aging, a center 14 for technical assistance in relation to age-friendly health systems. 15 Such center shall be a public-private entity and shall utilize outside 16 entities including but not limited to the Institute for Healthcare 17 Improvement. 18 § 4. The section heading of section 2995-b of the public health law, 19 as added by chapter 542 of the laws of 2000, is amended and a new subdi- 20 vision 4 is added to read as follows: 21 Hospital [report cards] performance data. 22 4. Special designations. Using criteria developed from data collected 23 pursuant to this section and other criteria, the department shall desig- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05181-01-5 
 A. 1988 2 1 nate hospitals that are well equipped in terms of expertise and technol- 2 ogy to provide certain types of care including stroke centers, trauma 3 centers, regional perinatal centers, burn centers, sexual assault foren- 4 sic examiner (SAFE) programs and age-friendly designated hospitals. 5 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 6 the implementation of the provisions of section two of this act shall be 7 subject to the appropriation of moneys specifically for the purposes 8 thereof.