Bill Text: NY S02315 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires hospitals to post information regarding the length of time a patient will wait in a hospital emergency department in the waiting room and on the hospital website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02315 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02315-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2315 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- 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 requiring hospi- tals to post information regarding the length of time a patient will wait in a hospital emergency department The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2827 to read as follows: 3 § 2827. Patients waiting for emergency treatment. Hospitals shall 4 prominently post in the patient waiting rooms of emergency departments a 5 clock, sign, or other device displaying the approximate time before a 6 patient awaiting emergency treatment shall be seen by a physician, nurse 7 or other emergency department personnel for examination and treatment. 8 Hospitals shall also make such information available on their website. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06928-01-7
