NY Cty L § 390 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 7-A - County Tuberculosis Hospitals 390 - Admission of County Patients.

§  390.  Admission  of county patients. 1. Any person in the county in   which the hospital is situated desiring treatment in such hospital,  may   apply  in person to the superintendent or to any reputable physician for   examination, and such  physician,  if  he  finds  that  said  person  is   suffering from tuberculosis in any form, may apply to the superintendent   of  the  hospital  for  his admission. Blank forms for such applications   shall be provided by  the  hospital,  and  shall  be  forwarded  by  the   superintendent  thereof  gratuitously  to any reputable physician in the   county, upon request.  So far as practicable applications for  admission   to the hospital shall be made upon such forms. The superintendent of the   hospital,  upon the receipt of such application, if it appears therefrom   that the patient is suffering from  tuberculosis,  and  if  there  be  a   vacancy  in  the  said  hospital,  shall notify the person named in such   application to appear in person at the hospital. If, upon examination of   such patient, or of any patient applying in person  for  admission,  the   superintendent   is   satisfied  that  such  person  is  suffering  from   tuberculosis, he shall admit him to the hospital as a patient. All  such   applications shall be filed and recorded in a book kept for that purpose   in the order of their receipt. When said hospital is completed and ready   for  the  treatment  of  patients,  or  whenever  thereafter  there  are   vacancies therein, admissions to said hospital  shall  be  made  in  the   order in which the names of applicants shall appear upon the application   book  to  be  kept  as  above provided, in so far as such applicants are   certified to by the superintendent to be suffering from tuberculosis. No   discrimination shall be made in the accommodation, care or treatment  of   any  patient  because  of  the  fact  that  the patient or his relatives   contribute to the cost of his care and treatment in whole  or  in  part,   and  no  patient shall be permitted to pay for his care and treatment in   such hospital a greater sum than the average per diem per capita cost of   care and treatment therein and no officer or employee of  such  hospital   shall  accept  from  any  clinic or hospital patient any fee, payment or   gratuity whatsoever for his services.2. Whenever a patient admitted to said hospital has  local  residence,   as defined in the public health law, in the county in which the hospital   is  situated,  he  shall  be  a charge upon such county. If such patient   admitted to said hospital has local residence in some other county or in   the city of New York, he shall be a charge upon such other county or the   city of New York, as the case may be, and the superintendent shall  send   a  bill for such charge to the clerk of the board of supervisors of such   other county or to the comptroller of the city of New York. Such  charge   shall be at a rate to be fixed by the board of managers, which shall not   exceed  the  per  diem  per  capita  cost  of care and treatment in said   hospital, and  if  the  county  operating  said  hospital  is  currently   receiving  state aid for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients   pursuant to the public health law, such charge may be an amount for each   day of such patient's care equivalent to the balance of  the  total  per   diem  per  capita  cost  of operating such hospital during the preceding   fiscal year, as computed and  approved  by  the  state  commissioner  of   health pursuant to subdivision three of section fifty-four of the public   health  law.  Such  bill  shall  be  audited  and  paid  by the board of   supervisors of said county, except that a bill so submitted to the  city   of  New  York shall be paid by such city after audit and upon warrant of   the comptroller of such city. Any patient admitted to said hospital  may   pay  for  his care and treatment in whole or in part if he volunteers to   do so.