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NY Pub Health L § 2896-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 2 - Licensing and Registration 2896-E - Issuance of License.

§  2896-e.  Issuance of license. 1. The board shall issue a license to   practice nursing home administration to each  candidate  who  meets  the   qualifications   specified   in   section  two  thousand  eight  hundred   ninety-six-c of this title or submitted  an  application  and  qualified   under   subdivision   five   of   section  two  thousand  eight  hundred   ninety-six-d of this title and who has paid an initial application fee.2. Each license issued  shall  be  signed  by  the  chairman  and  the   secretary of the board and shall bear the seal of the department.3. Upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that a license has been lost,   mutilated  or  destroyed,  the  board may issue a duplicate license upon   such terms and conditions as may be required by the board and  certified   by the commissioner, and upon payment of a fee of ten dollars.4.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this article the board may adopt   rules and regulations governing  operation  of  a  nursing  home  during   periods of emergency.
NY Pub Health L § 2896-F (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 2 - Licensing and Registration 2896-F - Temporary Licenses.

§  2896-f. Temporary licenses. The board may issue a temporary license   to practice nursing  home  administration,  under  such  conditions  and   limitations as it shall determine, for a single period not to exceed six   months  to  an  applicant  of good moral character and suitability, over   twenty-one  years  of  age,  who  meets  such  other  standards  as  are   established  by  the  board,  who  has  paid an application fee of forty   dollars and who is designated by the owner, operator or other  governing   authority  to  administer  a  facility  during  a  period  when  due  to   resignation, death or incapacity or for other  reason  the  position  of   nursing home administrator has been unexpectedly vacated.
NY Pub Health L § 2896-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 2 - Licensing and Registration 2896-H - Reports.

§ 2896-h. Reports. 1. Every administrator of a nursing home shall:  (a)  post in a sufficient number of prominent positions in the nursing home so as to be accessible to all residents and to the general  public, a  concise  summary  of  the  last  inspection  report pertaining to the nursing home and issued by the department, with references to  the  page numbers  of  the  full  reports,  noting  any deficiencies found by said governmental agency or department and the actions taken by  the  nursing home  to  rectify  such  deficiencies,  and indicating in such summaries where the full reports may be inspected in said nursing home;  (b) provide to each applicant and, upon request, to each  resident  of such  nursing  home,  or  any  relative,  spouse, guardian, committee or conservator of such applicant or resident, a copy of the last inspection report pertaining to the nursing home and issued by the department.   2. The license or registration of a  nursing  home  administrator  who violates  any  of  the  provisions  of  this section shall be subject to suspension or revocation and  the  nursing  home  administrator  may  be subject  to  a  civil penalty in proceedings held in accordance with the provisions  of  section  twenty-eight  hundred  ninety-seven-a  of  this article.   3.  Nothing  contained in this section shall be construed or deemed to require the public disclosure of confidential medical, social,  personal or  financial  records of any patient. The commissioner shall adopt such regulations as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section and to preserve the confidentiality of medical, social, personal or financial records of patients.
NY Pub Health L § 2897-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 3 - Violations; Penalties 2897-A - Proceedings for Suspension or Revocation.

§  2897-a.  Proceedings  for suspension or revocation. 1.  Proceedings   against any licensed or registered nursing home administrator under this   section shall be begun by filing with the  board  a  written  charge  or   charges  in  the form of a petition under oath against such nursing home   administrator. The charges may be preferred by any person,  corporation,   association  or  public  officer,  or  by the board or department in the   first instance. A report of such investigation as the  department  shall   deem proper shall be provided on request of the board.2.  If  the  board decides that the charges should be heard, the board   shall designate a hearing officer to hear and report on the charges  and   shall  set  a  time  and  place  for the hearing. A copy of the charges,   together with a notice of the time and place of hearing, shall be served   on the accused at least fifteen days  before  the  date  fixed  for  the   hearing personally in the same manner as a summons in a civil action, or   by  certified  or registered mail addressed to the last known address of   the licensee.3. The respondent in all such cases brought under this section  shall,   at least five days before the return date of the petition containing the   charges,  file  with  the  board a verified answer, in duplicate, to the   allegations set forth in said petition.   The  accused  shall  have  the   opportunity  at  such hearing to appear either personally or by counsel,   to cross-examine witnesses against  him  and  to  produce  evidence  and   witnesses in his defense.4.  Upon the conclusion of the hearing, the hearing officer shall make   a written report of his findings and conclusions to the board. The board   shall thereupon take such action upon said findings and  conclusions  as   it  deems  proper.  If  the accused is found not guilty by the board, it   shall order a dismissal of the charges and  his  exoneration.    If  the   accused is found guilty of the charges, or any of them, the board shall,   in  its discretion, issue an order suspending, revoking or annulling the   license or registration of the accused, assessing a  civil  penalty  and   otherwise disciplining him.5. Where the license or registration of any person has been revoked or   annulled, as herein provided, the board may, after the expiration of two   years,  entertain  an  application  for  restoration  of such license or   registration.6. A licensed nursing home administrator whose license or registration   has been suspended, revoked or annulled, or who is otherwise disciplined   under  this  article,  may   commence   a   proceeding   under   article   seventy-eight  of the civil practice law and rules in the supreme court,   Albany county, for the purpose of reviewing such determination,  but  no   such  determination  shall  be stayed or enjoined except after notice to   the attorney general of the commencement of the proceeding.
NY Pub Health L § 2897-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 3 - Violations; Penalties 2897-B - Penalties.

§ 2897-b. Penalties. 1. It shall be a misdemeanor for a person to:  (a)   sell   or   fraudulently   obtain  or  furnish  a  nursing  home administrator diploma, license, record, or certificate of  registration, or aid or abet in the same;  (b)  practice  nursing  home  administration under cover of a diploma, license or registration illegally or fraudulently obtained or signed  or issued unlawfully, or under fraudulent representation or mistake of fact in material regard;  (c)  practice or hold himself out as entitled to practice nursing home administration without a valid license  or  after  he  shall  have  been convicted of a felony;  (d)  practice  fraud,  subterfuge or deceit, misrepresent or conceal a material fact, use a false name or wilfully make a  false  statement  in submitting an application for licensure or registration.  (e) otherwise violate any of the provisions of this article.   2.  Such  misdemeanor shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each separate violation.   3. A violation of this article, when reported to  the  department  and duly  substantiated  by affidavits or other satisfactory evidence, shall be investigated and, if the report is found to be true and the complaint substantiated, the board shall report such  violation  to  the  attorney general and request prompt prosecution.   4.  In  the  prosecution  of any criminal action for violation of this article by the attorney general or his deputy, the attorney  general  or his  deputy  may exercise all the powers and perform all the duties with respect to such actions or proceedings which the district attorney would otherwise be authorized or required to exercise or perform, and in  such action  or  proceeding  the  district  attorney shall only exercise such powers and perform such duties as are required of him  by  the  attorney general or the deputy attorney general so attending.
NY Pub Health L § 2897-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 3 - Violations; Penalties 2897-C - Disposition of Fees, Fines, Penalties and Other Moneys.

§  2897-c. Disposition of fees, fines, penalties and other moneys. All   fees, fines, penalties and other moneys derived from  the  operation  of   this  article  shall  be paid to the department and shall be paid by the   department to the state treasury, as provided in the state finance law.
NY Pub Health L § 2897-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 3 - Violations; Penalties 2897-D - Injunctive Relief.

§  2897-d.  Injunctive  relief.  The attorney general may apply to the   supreme court within the judicial district in which a violation of  this   article   is  alleged  to  have  occurred  for  an  order  enjoining  or   restraining  commission  or  continuance  of  the  acts  complained  of.   Thereupon  the court shall have jurisdiction of the proceeding and shall   have power to grant such temporary relief or  restraining  order  as  it   deems just and proper. In any such proceeding it shall be unnecessary to   allege  or  prove  that an adequate remedy at law does not exist or that   irreparable damage would result if such order were  not  granted.    The   remedy provided by this section shall be in addition to any other remedy   provided by law.
NY Pub Health L § 2898 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 4 - Construction 2898 - Construction.

§  2898.  Construction.  Nothing in this article shall be construed to   limit the activities, services, and use of official title on the part of   any person, provided that no title shall be used which includes the term   or words  "licensed  nursing  home  administrator"  by  any  person  not   qualified to do so under the provisions of this article.
NY Pub Health L § 2898-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 28-D - Practice of Nursing Home Administration Title 4 - Construction 2898-A - Separability.

§   2898-a.   Separability.   If   any  clause,  sentence,  paragraph,   subdivision, section or part of this article shall be  adjudged  by  any   court  of  competent  jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not   affect, impair, or  invalidate  the  remainder  thereof,  but  shall  be   confined   in   its   operation  to  the  clause,  sentence,  paragraph,   subdivision,  section  or  part  thereof  directly   involved   in   the   controversy in which the judgment shall have been rendered.
NY Pub Health L § 2954 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-A - Access to Community Health Care Services in Rural Areas Title 1 - Rural Health Care Access 2954 - Limitation on Liability of Network Participants.

§  2954.  Limitation  on liability of network participants.  Neither a   rural health network, nor any provider participating therein, whether by   agreement or through membership or common directorates, shall be  liable   for claims against or for the debt or obligations of any other affiliate   solely  by  reason  of  affiliation  or,  in  the absence of substantial   evidence of fraud or willful, wanton or criminal  activity  attributable   to  the  incurring  of such claim, debt or obligation on the part of the   entity from whom recovery is sought.
NY Pub Health L § 2955 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-A - Access to Community Health Care Services in Rural Areas Title 1 - Rural Health Care Access 2955 - Restraint of Trade by Networks and Network Participants.

§ 2955.  Restraint of trade by networks and network participants.  The   activities of rural health networks and providers participating therein,   undertaken  in  furtherance  of  planning,  implementing  or operating a   network or promoting the efficient delivery of health care services in a   rural area, shall be exempt from the provisions and penalties of article   twenty-two of the  general  business  law  respecting  arrangements  and   agreements  in  restraint  of  trade.    No hospital, physician or other   licensed or certified health care provider operating in  good  standing,   serving  the  area  of  the  network,  and willing to meet the terms and   conditions of the network as defined  in  the  network  plan,  shall  be   denied  the  ability  to  participate  therein. Nothing contained herein   shall be construed to require a hospital to grant  admitting  privileges   to  a  physician  solely because such physician is a participant in or a   member of the network.
NY Pub Health L § 2956 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-A - Access to Community Health Care Services in Rural Areas Title 1 - Rural Health Care Access 2956 - Designation of Upgraded Diagnostic and Treatment Centers.

§ 2956.  Designation of upgraded diagnostic and treatment centers.  1.   A  diagnostic  and  treatment  center  established  pursuant  to article   twenty-eight of this chapter, which is a participant in or a member of a   rural health network, may request the  commissioner  to  authorize  such   diagnostic  and  treatment center to provide limited emergency services.   Such diagnostic and treatment center shall  be  designated  an  upgraded   diagnostic and treatment center upon the commissioner's approval of such   request.2.  The commissioner shall establish guidelines for the designation of   a  diagnostic  and  treatment  center  as  an  upgraded  diagnostic  and   treatment center pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  section.    In   establishing  such guidelines, the commissioner shall solicit input from   hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centers and physicians.
NY Pub Health L § 2957 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-A - Access to Community Health Care Services in Rural Areas Title 1 - Rural Health Care Access 2957 - Designation of Primary Care Hospitals.

§ 2957.  Designation of primary care hospitals. 1.  A general hospital   established pursuant to article twenty-eight of this chapter may request   the  commissioner to exempt such hospital from particular services or to   authorize such hospital to offer  additional  special  services.    Such   hospital   shall   be  designated  a  primary  care  hospital  upon  the   commissioner's approval of such request; provided, however, that nothing   herein contained shall be  construed  to  restrict  such  hospital  from   offering  primary, specialty or acute inpatient services for which it is   able to provide appropriate technical and human resources, to respond to   community need, or to assure quality in the delivery of services.2. The commissioner shall establish guidelines for the designation  of   a general hospital as a primary care hospital pursuant to the provisions   of  this  section.    In  establishing such guidelines, the commissioner   shall solicit input from hospitals and physicians.
NY Pub Health L § 2995-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-D - Health Information and Quality Improvement Title 1 - Health Information 2995-C - Health Care Plan and Preferred Provider Organization Data.

§  2995-c.  Health care plan and preferred provider organization data. 1.  Collection. The department shall collect  for  dissemination  via  a statewide  health information system, any health care plan and preferred provider organization data collected for public  dissemination  pursuant to  the  quality  assurance  reporting  requirements  developed  by  the department  in  conjunction  with  the  national  committee  on  quality assurance.   2.  Preparation  of  data  and  public  review.  The  department shall thereafter prepare the collected health care plan and preferred provider organization data for dissemination. The department shall  provide  each health  care  plan  with  a  copy  of the health care plan and preferred provider organization data to be disseminated concerning it. In a manner and time required by the department,  the  health  care  plan  shall  be provided  with  an  opportunity  to correct factual inaccuracies, and to file a statement in a form prescribed by the department  concerning  the data, which statement shall be disseminated with the data.   3.  Dissemination.  The  department  shall  thereafter disseminate the collected health care plan and  preferred  provider  organization  data, organized  and  segregated  by  type of product and type of organization offering the product, with  corrections  and  statements,  if  any.  The department  shall  share  preferred  provider organization data with the superintendent of financial services.  (a)  Thereafter,  the  health  care  plan   and   preferred   provider organization  data so disseminated shall be updated at regular intervals to be determined by the committee.  (b) All health care plan  and  preferred  provider  organization  data disseminated  shall include the following statement: "THE DATA COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT IS ACCURATE TO THE BEST OF THE  KNOWLEDGE  OF  MEMBERS AND  STAFF,  BASED  ON  THE INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE HEALTH CARE PLAN WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF THE DATA."  (c) If the department determines that  any  data  to  be  disseminated pursuant  to  this  section  is not useful for determinations concerning health care quality, the department shall recommend to  the  legislature the necessary statutory changes.
NY Pub Health L § 2995-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-D - Health Information and Quality Improvement Title 1 - Health Information 2995-D - Further Study of Other Health Care Practitioner Data.

§  2995-d.  Further  study of other health care practitioner data. The   department shall:1.  Identify  the  classes  of  health  care  practitioners  licensed,   certified  or  registered  pursuant to title eight of the education law,   concerning  whom  it  would  be  feasible  and  useful  to  collect  and   disseminate  information  useful  for  making  determinations concerning   health care quality;2. Investigate the types of  data  concerning  such  practitioners  to   which  the  public  has  access,  including  all information provided by   federal, state or local agencies,  and  the  applicable  data  reporting   requirements;3.  Determine  which  data  concerning  such  practitioners  and which   methods of accessing such data, will be the most useful  and  convenient   for health care consumers;4.  Study  the  feasibility  and  utility  of  providing  practitioner   profiles by means of the system commonly known as  the  Internet,  on  a   single website; and5.  Provide  a  report of its findings to the governor and legislature   within eighteen months of the effective date of this section.
NY Pub Health L § 2996 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-D - Health Information and Quality Improvement Title 1 - Health Information 2996 - Study of Physician Credentialing.

§  2996.  Study  of  physician  credentialing. 1. The department shall examine  the   feasibility   of   establishing   a   clearinghouse   for credentialing  information  to reduce the burden for physicians required to submit credentials to entities licensed and regulated by  the  state. As part of such examination, the department shall:  (a)  examine  the  efficacy of the credentialing process prescribed by section twenty-eight hundred five-j of this chapter;  (b) determine which methods of organizing such  a  clearinghouse  with standardized  data  in  a  standardized format will provide the greatest usability and convenience to  health  care  providers  and  health  care plans;  (c)  identify  the  most  appropriate  entity  to  administer  such  a clearinghouse, and verify collected credential information; and  (d)  identify  safeguards  to  protect  the   privacy   of   providers participating in such a credentialing system.   2.  The  department  shall  provide  a  report  of  its  findings  and recommendations to the governor and legislature within  eighteen  months of the effective date of this section.
NY Pub Health L § 2997 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-D - Health Information and Quality Improvement Title 1 - Health Information 2997 - Patient Privacy.

§  2997.  Patient  privacy. 1. The department shall examine state laws   protecting the privacy of individual patient  data,  and  determine  the   necessity of supplementing existing protections.2.  The  department  shall  examine federal initiatives protecting the   privacy of  individual  patient  data,  and  such  federal  initiatives'   potential preemptive effect on state law protections.3.  The  department  shall  provide  a  report  of its findings to the   governor and the legislature within eighteen  months  of  the  effective   date of this section.
NY Pub Health L § 2997-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-D - Health Information and Quality Improvement Title 1 - Health Information 2997-A - Public Access.

§  2997-a.  Public  access. Nothing in this title shall abridge public   access to information currently available  or  permitted  by  any  other   provision  or rule of law. Nothing in this title shall not authorize the   disclosure of otherwise confidential information, except pursuant to the   express terms of this title.
NY Pub Health L § 2997-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 29-D - Health Information and Quality Improvement Title 1 - Health Information 2997-B - Pamphlet of Department Programs.

§  2997-b.  Pamphlet  of  department  programs. The commissioner shall   develop and transmit to physicians in the state a pamphlet describing  a   variety  of  department  programs  and  initiatives,  including  but not   limited to smoking cessation programs, public health insurance programs,   health and quality improvement information, the  patient  safety  center   and  physician  profiles.  Each  physician practicing in the state shall   make the pamphlet available in his or her  practice  reception  area  so   that it is accessible to patients.