STATE OF NEW YORK
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4498--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 13, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the establishment
of obstetric hemorrhage protocols; and providing for the repeal of
certain provisions upon the expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2803-n of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) (i) The commissioner shall provide guidance to hospitals on
4 obstetric hemorrhage protocols, in consultation with clinical experts,
5 and develop or identify an existing toolkit on obstetric hemorrhage
6 management, which may include a hemorrhage care checklist for use by
7 hospitals as part of the protocols and guidance on simulation training.
8 The commissioner shall report to the temporary president of the senate
9 and the speaker of the assembly on data reported to the department under
10 this paragraph within two years from the effective date of this para-
11 graph, and every two years thereafter.
12 (ii) The hospital shall adopt, implement, periodically update and
13 submit to the department standard protocols for management of obstetric
14 hemorrhage. Such protocols shall address early recognition and assess-
15 ment, readiness to respond in a multidisciplinary manner, and data
16 reporting to the department sufficient for the department to monitor and
17 report pursuant to this paragraph. Such protocols shall utilize risk
18 assessment tools such as the toolkit established or identified by the
19 department under this paragraph and shall include a response plan
20 providing for the triage and transfer to higher level facilities if
21 needed.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become
2 a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of health shall make
3 regulations and take other actions reasonably necessary to implement
4 this act on that date.
