S 1998: Requires the department of health to conduct 40% of its inspections on nursing homes outside of business hours; requires department of health inspections of nursing homes to be conducted without prior notice to a nursing home; requires an annual nursing home inspection report.
The bill aims to regulate nursing home inspections in New York. The key points of the bill include: The bill introduces the "unpredictable nursing home inspection act" and amends the public health law to ensure transparency in nursing home inspections. The Department of Health conducts no more than 60% of all nursing home inspections during business hours, which are defined as Monday to Friday, excluding holidays, between 8 am and 6 pm. The department is required to submit an annual report detailing the results of inspections outside of business hours to the Governor and Attorney General by January 31st each year. The report should include information on the dates and times of inspections, whether they were conducted during business or non-business hours, and the percentage of inspections completed during business hours for each facility. The bill also prohibits department officials fro…
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1998 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 the "Unpredictable Nursing Home Inspection Act" 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 "Unpredict- 2 able Nursing Home Inspection Act". 3 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2808-g 4 to read as follows: 5 § 2808-g. Unpredictable nursing home inspections. 1. Definition. For 6 the purposes of this section, the term "business hours" shall mean the 7 hours between eight A.M. and six P.M. on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 8 Thursday, or Friday, excluding federally observed holidays. 9 2. The department shall conduct no more than sixty percent of all 10 nursing home inspections in a calendar year during business hours. 11 3. The department shall submit an annual report based on the previous 12 year's nursing home inspections outside of business hours to the gover- 13 nor and attorney general no later than the thirty-first of January each 14 year. Such report shall contain: 15 (a) a list of each nursing home within the state; 16 (b) the dates and times each inspection was completed, sorted by 17 facility; 18 (c) a clear indication of whether each inspection was completed during 19 business or non-business hours; and 20 (d) the percentage of inspections completed during business hours for 21 each nursing home. 22 4. No department official shall give any form of notice of an impend- 23 ing inspection to any individual not employed by the department 24 5. Any department official responsible for the scheduling of 25 inspections who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01621-02-5S. 1998 2 1 to suspension without pay and/or termination, as determined by the 2 attorney general. 3 § 3. On the effective date of this act, the governor shall send a copy 4 of this act to the attorney general. 5 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.