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2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 4 - Institutions for Children › 2570 - Children's Institutions; Regular Physician Required.

§ 2570. Children's institutions; regular physician required.  1. Every
  institution in this state, operated for the express purpose of receiving
  or  caring  for  dependent,  neglected or destitute children or juvenile
  delinquents, except hospitals, shall have  attached  thereto  a  regular
  physician of its selection duly licensed under the laws of the state and
  in  good  professional  standing,  whose  name and address shall be kept
  posted conspicuously within such institution.
2. The words "juvenile delinquents" used in this article shall include
  all children whose commitment to an institution is authorized by law.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 4 - Institutions for Children › 2571 - Children's Institutions; Examination of Children on Admission.

§ 2571. Children's institutions; examination of children on admission.
  1.  The  administrative officer or person in charge of every institution
  in this state operated for the express purpose of  receiving  or  caring
  for  dependent, neglected or destitute children or juvenile delinquents,
  except hospitals, upon receiving  a  child  therein,  by  commitment  or
  otherwise,  shall,  before  permitting  such child to contact with other
  children, cause inquiry to be made concerning  the  presence  or  recent
  exposure of such child to a communicable disease.
2.  If,  on the basis of such inquiry, there is reason to suspect that
  such child may be ill or recently exposed  to  a  communicable  disease,
  such  child  shall  not  be permitted to contact other children until so
  authorized by the regular physician of the institution. A record of  the
  results  of all such inquiries and examinations shall be kept on file in
  the institution.
3. A thorough medical examination shall be performed on  all  children
  either  immediately  prior  to  admission  to the institution or shortly
  thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 4 - Institutions for Children › 2573 - Children's Institutions; Inspections; Reports.

§  2573.  Children's  institutions;  inspections;  reports.    1.  The
  administrative officer or person in charge and the regular physician  of
  every  institution caring for children referred to in this article shall
  make such reports concerning the physical condition and  health  of  the
  children  and  the environmental sanitation of the institution as may be
  required by the state  health  commissioner,  local  health  officer  or
  health commissioner having jurisdiction.
2.   In   conjunction   with   the  state  department  having  general
  supervision, the commissioner may make inspection of  such  institutions
  from  time  to time with respect to the physical health and condition of
  the children and the environmental sanitation of the institution  or  he
  may  direct  that  such inspections be made by the health officer having
  jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 4 - Institutions for Children › 2574 - Children's Institutions; Environmental Sanitation.

§  2574.  Children's  institutions;  environmental sanitation.   Every
  institution caring for children referred to in this article shall comply
  with such orders, rules and regulations respecting  water  supply,  milk
  supply,  sewerage disposal, food handling, and other sanitary matters as
  are  established  by  the  state  or  local  sanitary  codes,  rules  or
  regulations or, in the case of milk supply, rules and regulations of the
  commissioner of agriculture and markets.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 4 - Institutions for Children › 2575 - Children's Institutions; Duty of Local Health Officer.

§ 2575. Children's institutions; duty of local health officer.  1. The
  county,  part-county,  city  (over  fifty  thousand  population)  health
  commissioner or district state health officer within whose  jurisdiction
  any  institution  for the care of children, referred to in this article,
  is situated, shall immediately investigate  any  complaint  against  the
  management  of  the  institution  as  to  the existence of any condition
  therein dangerous or detrimental to life or health.
2. If after such investigation, such  health  commissioner  or  health
  officer  is satisfied that a condition exists therein which is dangerous
  or detrimental to life or health, he shall cause the said  condition  to
  be remedied without delay.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 5 - Children With Physical Disabilities › 2581 - Children With Physical Disabilities; Definitions.

§  2581.  Children with physical disabilities; definitions. As used in
  this article: 1. "Children with physical disabilities" means any persons
  under twenty-one years of age who are disabled by reason of a defect  or
  disability,  whether  congenital  or  acquired  by  accident, injury, or
  disease, or who are suffering from  long-term  disease,  including,  but
  without limiting the generality of the foregoing, chronic granulomatous,
  cystic  fibrosis,  epidermolysis bullosa, muscular dystrophy, nephrosis,
  rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, blood  dyscrasies,  cancer,
  lymphatic  diseases,  including,  but  not  limited to: insufficiency of
  lymphatic circulatory function (to include all forms of lymphedema, both
  primary and secondary);  lipedema;  complex  vascular  diseases  of  the
  lymphatic        vasculature,        including        lymphangiomatosis,
  lymphangioleio-myomatosis,  lymphangiectasias,   lymphangiomas,   cystic
  hygromas,    Gorham's    disease,    lymphangiosarcoma,    and   complex
  vascular/lymphatic  malformations  and  syndromes,  brain  injured,  and
  chronic  asthma,  or from any disease or condition likely to result in a
  disability in the absence of  treatment,  provided,  however,  no  child
  shall  be  deprived  of  a  service under the provisions of this chapter
  solely because of the degree of developmental disability.
2.  "Medical  service"  means  such   diagnostic,   therapeutic,   and
  rehabilitative  care  by  medical  and  paramedical personnel, including
  hospital and related care, and drugs, prostheses, appliances,  equipment
  and devices as necessary.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 5 - Children With Physical Disabilities › 2583 - Children With Physical Disabilities; Rules and Regulations; Limitations.

§  2583.  Children  with physical disabilities; rules and regulations;
limitations.  1. Such service shall be provided in accordance with rules
and regulations established  by  the  commissioner.  The  commissioner's
rules and regulations may relate to:
(a)  the defects, disabilities, diseases and conditions eligible under
the program and the type and extent of care that may be offered.
(b)  qualifications  of  professional  personnel,  both  medical   and
paramedical.
(c)  standards  of  institutional  care, whether in general hospitals,
special hospitals, long-term care  facilities,  or  such  other  special
facilities,  whether inpatient or outpatient, as may be needed to obtain
the services required.
(d) limitations on the amount of professional fees, and  on  rates  in
general  hospitals,  special  hospitals,  long-term  care facilities and
special facilities for  which  reimbursement  may  be  made  under  this
article.
(e)  standards  and  procedures  for  administration  of  programs for
children with physical disabilities.
2. Sections two thousand five hundred  eighty  to  two  thousand  five
hundred  eighty-three, inclusive, and section six hundred sixty, of this
chapter, shall not apply to:
(a) children requiring permanent custodial care.
(b)  children  institutionalized  in  mental,  correctional  or  penal
institutions of the state of New York.
(c)  children  who,  in  the  judgment of the commissioner, may not be
expected to benefit from medical service.
(d) children whose parents or guardians  object  to  medical  services
because of exclusive dependence for healing on the practice of religious
tenets of any church.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 5 - Children With Physical Disabilities › 2584 - Children With Physical Disabilities; Transportation.

§  2584.  Children with physical disabilities; transportation.  1. The
  department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits of the
  appropriations made therefor, such transportation for such children with
  physical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner  is  needed
  to  such  places  wherein  the  medical services outlined in section two
  thousand five hundred eighty-one of this  chapter  are  administered  or
  provided to such children.
2. When the commissioner of health of any county or part-county health
  district  or  the  medical  director  of  the  program for children with
  physical disabilities, or the department of health of the  city  of  New
  York,  in  pursuance  of section two thousand five hundred eighty-two of
  this chapter, shall issue an authorization for medical service  for  any
  child  with  physical disabilities, including among the expenses thereof
  transportation necessary to obtain such services, the  commissioner,  if
  he approves such order, shall issue a certificate to such effect, copies
  of  which  shall  be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors or
  other governing elective body of the county or chief fiscal  officer  of
  the city of New York and one in the office of the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6* - Federal Child Care and Adult Food Program › 2585 - Federal Child Care and Adult Food Progam; Establishment.

§  2585.  Federal  child  care  and  adult food progam; establishment.
  There is hereby established within the department the federal child care
  and adult food program for the purpose of providing nutritious meals  to
  children  and  adults in or under the auspices of institutions providing
  day care.  The commissioner is authorized to develop and submit the plan
  required for participation in the federal  child  care  and  adult  food
  program  (42  USCS  §  1766). The commissioner is authorized to take any
  action necessary or consistent with federal law, rule and regulation, to
  implement the provisions of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6* - Federal Child Care and Adult Food Program › 2586 - Definitions.

§ 2586. Definitions.  As used in this title, the following terms shall
  have  the  following  meanings,  unless  the  context  clearly  requires
  otherwise:
1.  "Eligible  institution"  means  any  child  or  adult   day   care
  institution  defined  in  federal  law,  rule or regulations eligible to
  receive cash assistance under the federal  child  care  and  adult  food
  program. A child day care program shall be licensed by the department of
  social  services  or  licensed or otherwise approved by a state or local
  government agency or shall operate under the auspices  of  a  sponsoring
  organization licensed by the department of social services. An adult day
  care  program  shall be licensed and approved by the department or other
  state agency or  shall  operate  under  the  auspices  of  a  sponsoring
  organization  licensed  or  approved  by  the  department or other state
  agency.
2. "Program" means the federal child care and adult food program.  (42
  USCS § 1766).
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6* - Federal Child Care and Adult Food Program › 2587 - Program Approval.

§  2587.  Program  approval.    1.  Eligible institutions seeking cash
assistance  under  the  program  shall  submit  an  application  to  the
commissioner.  Such  application  shall  be  in  a  format  and quantity
determined by the commissioner, and shall include:
(a) a general description of the proposed program;
(b) a copy of  a  valid  license  or  other  approval  issued  by  the
department,  the  department of social services or other state agency to
provide or sponsor child or adult day care programs; and
(c) such other information as required by the commissioner.
2. The commissioner shall not  approve  an  eligible  institution  for
receipt of cash assistance under this title unless the applicant:
(a)  accepts  final  administrative  and  financial responsibility for
management of an effective food service;
(b) possesses  a  valid  license  or  other  approval  issued  by  the
department,  the  department of social services or other state agency to
operate or sponsor child or adult day care programs;
(c) has not been seriously deficient in its operation of  the  program
or any other program specified in federal law, rule or regulation;
(d)  demonstrates  that  it  will  provide  adequate  supervisory  and
operational personnel for  overall  monitoring  and  management  of  the
program; and
(e) meets standards prescribed in federal law, rule or regulation.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  provide  written  notice  of approval or
disapproval of the proposed application to the applicant.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6* - Federal Child Care and Adult Food Program › 2588 - Reimbursement.

§  2588.  Reimbursement.    1.  The  total  amount  of cash assistance
  provided pursuant to this title  shall  be  limited  to  the  amount  of
  federal funds appropriated for the program.
2.  Eligible  institutions  approved  by  the commissioner pursuant to
  section two thousand five hundred eighty-seven of this  title  shall  be
  reimbursed  for  meals, preparation of meals and administrative expenses
  when provided to children and adults in amounts specified under  federal
  law,  rule or regulation and consistent with the application as approved
  by the commissioner. In the event  that  eligible  institutions  request
  advance  payment  for  meals,  preparation  of  meals  or administrative
  expenses in accordance  with  federal  law,  rule  or  regulation,  such
  advance  shall  be  paid if it is consistent with state and federal law,
  rule or regulation and the application as approved by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6 - Emergency Nutrition Aid Program for Pregnant Women and Adolescents › 2590 - Emergency Nutrition Aid Program for Pregnant Women and Adolescents; Establishment.

*  §  2590.  Emergency  nutrition  aid  program for pregnant women and
  adolescents; establishment.   The emergency nutrition  aid  program  for
  pregnant  women  and adolescents is established within the department of
  health.
* NB Expired March 31, 1986
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6 - Emergency Nutrition Aid Program for Pregnant Women and Adolescents › 2591 - Eligibility.

*  §  2591. Eligibility.  Eligibility for the program shall be limited
  to pregnant women and adolescents who, because of low income and dietary
  deficiencies, are at high risk endangering the nutritional well-being of
  their fetuses and risking the delivery of low birth weight infants.
* NB Expired March 31, 1986
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6-A - Doulas for Medicaid › 2594-A - Definitions.

* §  2594-a.  Definitions.  1. For the purposes of this title, "doula"
  means a trained person who provides continuous physical, emotional,  and
  informational  support  to  a  pregnant  person  and  the family of such
  pregnant person before, during or a reasonable time after childbirth.
2. A doula may provide services in  hospitals,  birthing  centers,  at
  home deliveries and other community settings.
* NB Effective and Repealed August 6, 2024
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6-A - Doulas for Medicaid › 2594-B - New York State Community Doula Directory.

* §   2594-b.  New  York  state  community  doula  directory.  1.  The
department shall establish and maintain a community doula directory  for
doulas on the department's internet website for the purposes of Medicaid
reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients.
2.  The  directory  shall include the following information concerning
doulas such as:
(a) the name of the doula who provides doula services;
(b) the address  and  location  of  where  the  doula  provides  doula
services;
(c)  the name of each Medicaid provider that employs or contracts with
a doula to provide doula services to eligible Medicaid recipients;
(d)  the  doula's  national   provider   identification   number,   if
applicable; and
(e)  all  documentation  of  criteria  pursuant to section twenty-five
hundred ninety-four-c of this title.
3. The department shall determine the method of registration  and  the
documentation required to verify such criteria has been met.
4.  Each  doula  shall  be responsible for completing the requirements
pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-four-c of this title.
5. The department shall not impose any fee on any  doula  to  register
for admittance into the New York state community doula directory.
6.  The  community  doula directory shall be publicly accessible at no
cost to the doula or birthing person looking to hire a  doula  in  their
community.
* NB Effective and Repealed August 6, 2024
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 6-A - Doulas for Medicaid › 2594-C - Criteria for Admittance Into the New York State Community Doula Directory.

* §  2594-c. Criteria for admittance into the New York state community
  doula directory. 1. Each  doula  seeking  Medicaid  reimbursement  shall
  apply to be registered in the New York state community doula directory.
2.  A  doula  shall  submit to the department a certified copy of such
  doula's certification  from  a  doula  educational  organization  or  by
  demonstration  of satisfactory proficiency pursuant to this section, and
  his, her, or their full name, address, phone number, email address,  and
  if applicable, their national provider identification number.
* NB Effective and Repealed August 6, 2024
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 7 - Youth Sports › 2595 - Football Programs; Information on Concussions.

§  2595.  Football programs; information on concussions. 1. All tackle
  football programs in the state shall  provide  an  informational  packet
  about  concussions and sub-concussive blows, and the injuries that might
  occur as a result of receiving such blows, to the parents  or  guardians
  of  all  children  participating  in  such  tackle football program. The
  informational packet shall be provided by the department  and  shall  be
  available to be downloaded free of charge from the department's website.
2.  For  the purposes of this section, "tackle football program" shall
  include any practice, game or other activity which involves engaging  in
  tackle  football and which is organized by a school, adult, or public or
  private league or other entity whose purpose is  to  allow  children  to
  participate in contact football.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 8 - Childhood Obesity Prevention Program › 2599-C - School-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention and Physical Activity Programs.

§  2599-c.  School-based  childhood  obesity  prevention  and physical
  activity  programs.  The   commissioner,   in   cooperation   with   the
  commissioners  of  education  and  agriculture  and  markets, and county
  boards of cooperative extension, shall encourage  the  establishment  of
  school-based childhood obesity prevention and physical activity programs
  that promote:
1.  A  healthy  school  environment,  including physical and aesthetic
  surroundings and culture designed to prevent and  reduce  the  incidence
  and prevalence of obesity; and
2.  Parent/community  involvement,  including  an  integrated  school,
  parent, and community approach for enhancing the health  and  well-being
  of students.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 8 - Childhood Obesity Prevention Program › 2599-D - Powers of Commissioner.

§  2599-d.  Powers  of  commissioner.  The commissioner may administer
  directly or through contract, within the amount of funds  allocated  and
  within amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (k) of subdivision one
  of  section  twenty-eight hundred seven-v of this chapter, the childhood
  obesity prevention program. The commissioner  shall  also  make  grants,
  within  the  amount of funds available therefor, for community-based and
  school-based projects targeted to high-risk populations and  communities
  to implement the provisions of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25-A - Reproductive Health Act › 2599-AA - Policy and Purpose.

§   2599-aa.   Policy   and   purpose.   The  legislature  finds  that
  comprehensive reproductive health care is  a  fundamental  component  of
  every  individual's  health,  privacy and equality. Therefore, it is the
  policy of the state that:
1. Every individual has the fundamental  right  to  choose  or  refuse
  contraception or sterilization.
2.  Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to
  choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child,  or  to
  have an abortion, pursuant to this article.
3.  The  state shall not discriminate against, deny, or interfere with
  the exercise of the rights set forth in this section in  the  regulation
  or provision of benefits, facilities, services or information.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25-A - Reproductive Health Act › 2599-BB - Abortion.

§ 2599-bb. Abortion.   1.   A   health   care  practitioner  licensed,
  certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law,  acting
  within  his  or  her  lawful  scope of practice, may perform an abortion
  when,  according  to  the  practitioner's  reasonable  and  good   faith
  professional  judgment  based  on  the  facts of the patient's case: the
  patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of  pregnancy,
  or  there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary
  to protect the patient's life or health.
2. This article shall be construed and  applied  consistent  with  and
  subject  to  applicable  laws  and applicable and authorized regulations
  governing health care procedures.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25-B - Gestational Surrogacy › 2599-CC - Gestational Surrogacy.

§ 2599-cc. Gestational surrogacy. 1. The commissioner shall promulgate
regulations  on  the practice of gestational surrogacy. Such regulations
shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) guidelines and procedures for  obtaining  fully  informed  consent
from  potential  persons acting as surrogates, including but not limited
to a full disclosure of any known or potential health risks  and  mental
health impacts associated with acting as a surrogate;
(b)  the  development  and  distribution,  in  printed form and on the
department's website, of informational material relating to  gestational
surrogacy;
(c)  the  establishment  of  a  voluntary central tracking registry of
persons acting as surrogates, as reported by surrogacy programs licensed
by the department pursuant to article forty-four of the general business
law upon the affirmative consent of a person acting as  surrogate.  Such
registry  shall  provide  a means for gathering and maintaining accurate
information on the:
(i) number of times a person has acted as a surrogate;
(ii) health information of the person acting as surrogate; and
(iii) other information deemed appropriate by the commissioner;
(d)  the  development  of  guidelines,  procedures  or  protocols,  in
consultation   with   the   American   college   of   obstetricians  and
gynecologists and the American society  for  reproductive  medicine,  to
assist physicians in screening potential surrogates for their ability to
serve  as  a  surrogate  as  required  under subdivision four of section
581-402 of the family court act including taking into consideration  the
potential surrogates family medical history and complications from prior
pregnancies  and  known  health  conditions  that may pose a risk to the
potential surrogate during pregnancy; and
(e) the development of guidance to reduce conflicts of interest  among
physicians providing health care services to the surrogate.
2.  All  such  regulations  shall maintain the anonymity of the person
acting as surrogate and any resulting offspring  and  govern  access  to
information  maintained by the registry. Such registry shall comply with
all state and federal laws and regulations related  to  maintaining  the
privacy and confidentiality of records contained with the registry.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26 - Helen Hayes Hospital › 2600 - Helen Hayes Hospital; Hospital Care and Treatment.

§  2600.  Helen  Hayes  Hospital; hospital care and treatment.  1. The
  Helen Hayes Hospital is continued for the care and treatment of  persons
  who are physically disabled, deformed or are suffering from disease from
  which they are likely to become physically disabled or deformed.
2.  The  patients  in such hospital shall be permitted to exercise and
  enjoy religious profession and worship freely and without discrimination
  or preference.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26 - Helen Hayes Hospital › 2601 - Helen Hayes Hospital; Functions; Powers and Duties.

§  2601.  Helen  Hayes Hospital; functions; powers and duties.  1. The
  Helen Hayes Hospital may receive persons who  are  physically  disabled,
  deformed  or suffering from disease from which they are likely to become
  physically disabled or deformed, for care,  study  and  experimental  or
  other treatment, under regulations established by the commissioner.
2.  No person provided for by this article, however, shall be admitted
  to the hospital unless at the time of his admission  he  is  capable  of
  benefiting  from  care  in  terms  of improved capacity for remunerative
  occupation or self-sufficiency.
3. The hospital shall, in conjunction with its provision of  care  and
  treatment,  conduct  investigations  of the cause, mortality, treatment,
  prevention and cure of physically disabling or  deforming  diseases  and
  conditions.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26 - Helen Hayes Hospital › 2602 - Helen Hayes Hospital; Charges for Service and Reimbursement.

§  2602.  Helen Hayes Hospital; charges for service and reimbursement.
  1. The commissioner shall  establish  the  rates  to  be  paid  for  the
  maintenance,  care  and  treatment of all patients admitted to the Helen
  Hayes Hospital.
2. The commissioner shall require that the director  of  the  hospital
  shall  render  bills  at  suitable intervals and a final bill as soon as
  practicable on discharge of a patient, to the person or agency  in  each
  instance who guarantees payment or, if payment is to be made from public
  funds,  to  the  proper  fiscal  officer  of  the  agency  or  county or
  municipality indicated.
3. The commissioner may in his  discretion,  in  proper  cases,  where
  substantial  justice  will  best  be served thereby, waive such bills or
  compromise any portion of such  bills  for  the  maintenance,  care  and
  treatment received or furnished to patients in the hospital. Such waiver
  or  compromise shall be made only upon prior approval of the comptroller
  and the attorney general when they deem it to be for the  best  interest
  of the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26-A - New York State Veterans' Home › 2630 - Purpose.

§  2630.  Purpose.    The  New  York state home for veterans and their
  dependents at Oxford, the New York state home for veterans in  the  city
  of  New  York,  the New York state home for veterans in western New York
  and the New York home for veterans in the lower-Hudson Valley  shall  be
  for  the  care  of  aged dependent veterans and their spouses, veterans'
  mothers and fathers, unremarried surviving spouses, and army nurses.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26-A - New York State Veterans' Home › 2631 - Board of Visitors; Special Provision.

§  2631.  Board of visitors; special provision.  The board of visitors
  of each such home shall consist  of  nine  members  appointed  from  the
  members  of  the  New York departments of the major organizations of war
  veterans to which charters have been issued by Acts of  Congress  or  of
  their  women's  auxiliaries.  The  terms  of  office  of  such  visitors
  hereafter appointed shall be five years, and they shall be so  appointed
  that  the  terms  of two of the members shall expire on the first day of
  February of each year, except that the term of but one member  shall  so
  expire  every  fifth year. Appointments shall be so made that there will
  be at all times four women and five men members of such board.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26-A - New York State Veterans' Home › 2633 - Acquisition and Application of Property.

§  2633.  Acquisition  and  application  of  property.  Subject to the
  regulations of the  department,  the  board  of  visitors  or  the  duly
  appointed  treasurer  of  the  homes,  as  agent  of the department, may
  receive, retain and expend receipts other than state appropriations, any
  money or other personal property given, bequeathed or entrusted  to  the
  board  of  visitors  or  duly  appointed treasurer, for the purposes for
  which  it  is  given  or  bequeathed  to  the  homes  or  entrusted  for
  safekeeping  or,  if unaccompanied by conditions or limitations, for any
  of the purposes of the homes or for the  convenience  of  the  residents
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26-A - New York State Veterans' Home › 2634 - Designation of the "New York State Women Veterans Memorial Community Room".

§  2634.  Designation  of  the "New York State Women Veterans Memorial
  Community Room".  The communal area multi-purpose room of the  New  York
  state  home  for veterans in the city of New York, such room as referred
  to as area one  hundred  ninety-four  in  the  architectural  plans  and
  drawings of such home for veterans, shall be designated and known as the
  "New  York State Women Veterans Memorial Community Room" in honor of all
  women veterans of this state.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 26-A - New York State Veterans' Home › 2635 - Designation of the "Arnold Swanson Community Room".

§  2635.  Designation  of  the  "Arnold Swanson Community Room".   The
  communal area multi-purpose room of the New York state home for veterans
  in the city of Batavia shall be designated  and  known  as  the  "Arnold
  Swanson Community Room" in honor of Arnold Swanson.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27 - Bureau of Chronic Disease and Geriatrics › 2700 - Bureau of Chronic Disease and Geriatrics Established.

§  2700.  Bureau  of  chronic disease and geriatrics established.  The
  state department of health shall establish a bureau of  chronic  disease
  and  geriatrics,  which  shall develop a program designed to improve and
  protect the health and vitality of middle-aged and elderly  citizens  of
  the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27 - Bureau of Chronic Disease and Geriatrics › 2701 - Purpose and Functions.

§  2701.  Purpose and functions.  The department, at the discretion of
the commissioner, shall:
1.  Plan  public  health  programs   to   aid   in   the   prevention,
rehabilitation   and   control  of  degenerative  diseases  and  chronic
illnesses.
2. Develop a  program  for  integrating  community  and  institutional
agencies  and  facilities and for utilization of geriatric techniques to
provide  a  comprehensive  program  of  prevention,  rehabilitation  and
control of degenerative diseases and chronic illnesses.
3.  Develop a plan for periodic health inventories for the middle-aged
and elderly.
4. Explore possibilities of reducing cost and improving  care  of  the
chronically   ill   through   use   of   non-institutional  as  well  as
institutional facilities.
5. Develop laboratory, clinical and statistical  research  on  chronic
disease  and  health  problems  of older people in consultation with the
state medical society and other agencies, including the state department
of mental hygiene and the state university of New York.
6. (a) Carry on programs of professional  education  and  training  of
medical   students,   physicians   and   nurses   in   the   prevention,
rehabilitation, medical and nursing care of diseases of older people.
(b) Plan and carry out the Alzheimer's disease assistance  program  to
enhance  support  services for people with Alzheimer's disease and their
caregivers. Services to be provided by the program may include:
(i) education and training for health care practitioners,  caregivers,
volunteers  and  informal  caregivers  regarding  services  for  or  the
treatment of persons with Alzheimer's disease;
(ii) counseling for families of persons with Alzheimer's disease;
(iii)  respite  services  for  informal  caregivers  of  persons  with
Alzheimer's disease; and
(iv) technological assistance for persons with Alzheimer's disease.
The commissioner shall make grants under this paragraph within amounts
appropriated  therefore  to public and not-for-profit entities including
local  health  agencies,  health  care  providers,  higher   educational
institutions   affiliated   with   medical  facilities,  community-based
organizations and other organizations  with  demonstrated  expertise  in
serving   persons   with   Alzheimer's  disease.  The  commissioner  may
coordinate grants under this paragraph with the availability  of  grants
from other sources. The commissioner may also accept or seek grants from
other sources to enhance amounts appropriated to this program.
7.   Plan   and  carry  out  programs  to  stimulate  the  prevention,
rehabilitation and control of chronic illnesses and the promotion of the
health of adult, middle-aged and older persons, through  "day  hospital"
and a "meals on wheels" demonstration projects.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-A - Osteoporosis Preventation and Education › 2705 - Legislative Findings and Declarations.

§  2705. Legislative findings and declarations. The legislature hereby
  finds and declares that osteoporosis is a  public  health  problem  that
  poses  a  threat  to  the  health  and  quality  of  life  to as many as
  twenty-four million Americans; and that it may ultimately affect as many
  as half of all women in the United States over the age of forty-five and
  an increasing number of men; and costs the nation ten billion dollars  a
  year  in hospitalization and treatment for resulting injuries, including
  chronic disability, pain, and the need for long term care.
The legislature further finds  and  declares  that  over  one  million
  fractures a year result from osteoporosis and that the pain, discomfort,
  immobility  and  social  isolation that may result from fractures affect
  quality of life, threaten people's ability  to  live  independently  and
  costs millions annually in nursing home and assistive care.
The  legislature  further  finds  and  declares  that a plan should be
  established to insure  the  availability  of  comprehensive  educational
  services in communities, and that such services include awareness of the
  disease,   its   rate  of  incidence,  risk  factors,  facts  about  its
  progression, and implications during pregnancy, the peri-menopausal  and
  post-menopausal years, and in later life; education about the prevention
  of   osteoporosis   including  nutrition,  positive  health  habits  and
  exercise, and their benefits from an early age; education regarding  the
  availability  and  significance  of  diagnostic  screening  as  well  as
  predisposing factors including genetic disposition and interventions for
  those who already have bone mass loss or those who may be at  high  risk
  of bone mass loss; education about available and experimental treatments
  and the benefits, risks, and side effects of each.
The  legislature  hereby  finds and declares that educating the public
  about this potentially devastating disease is  of  paramount  importance
  and  that  educating the public throughout the state is in every respect
  in the public interest and to the  benefit of all persons in this state.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-AA - New York State Kidney Disease Institute › 2710 - Legislative Findings and Purposes.

§  2710. Legislative findings and purposes.  It is hereby declared and
  found that one of the major problems  facing  medicine  and  the  public
  health  and  welfare  is  the  lack  of  trained  individuals, available
  facilities,  research  and  equipment  for  the  discovery,  evaluation,
  diagnosis,  treatment  and  cure of kidney disease. It is estimated that
  more than two thousand people die in  New  York  state  each  year  from
  kidney  failure.  No  parallel  situation in medicine exists today where
  techniques have been developed  for  the  diagnosis  and  prevention  of
  disease  which would save lives, yet at the same time people continue to
  progress to chronic kidney disease  and  death  only  for  the  lack  of
  facilities  for  diagnosis  and  treatment. New York state must take the
  initiative to combat this  indiscriminate  and  often  needless  killer.
  Basic  research is needed into the nature of diseases of the kidneys and
  the problems of  kidney  transplantation;  in  developing  mass  testing
  procedures  for  the  early  detection  of  kidney  disease; and for the
  development  of  more  effective  and  economical  devices   for   blood
  purification.  An intensive survey of state-wide needs and facilities is
  necessary to formulate a long-range program for the state.
It is imperative that a comprehensive program to combat kidney disease
  be implemented through the combined and correlated efforts of state  and
  local  governments, medicine, universities, non-profit organizations and
  individuals. The program provided by this article is designed  to  bring
  to  bear  all  the possible resources of the state and to coordinate the
  efforts of the state in this vital matter of public health.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-AA - New York State Kidney Disease Institute › 2711 - New York State Kidney Disease Institute; Organization.

§ 2711. New York state kidney disease institute; organization.  1. The
  New  York  state  kidney  disease institute is hereby created within the
  department of health.
2. The commissioner shall appoint a director of the institute and  may
  employ  such  assistants and personnel, within the amounts appropriated,
  as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-AA - New York State Kidney Disease Institute › 2712 - Functions, Powers and Duties.

§  2712.  Functions,  powers  and  duties.  1. In order to further the
declared  purposes  of  this  article,  the  institute  shall  have  the
following functions, powers and duties:
(a)  To  conduct a survey of all of the existing facilities within the
state having to do with  the  diagnosis,  evaluation  and  treatment  of
patients  with kidney disease and to prepare and submit its findings and
a specific program of action.
(b) To evaluate the  need  for  the  creation  of  local  or  regional
facilities and for the establishing of a major kidney research center.
(c)  To  develop  and  administer  scientific  investigations into the
cause, prevention, methods of  treatment  and  cure  of  renal  disease,
including research into transplantation of kidneys.
(d)  To develop techniques for an effective method of mass testing for
the detection of kidney diseases and urinary tract infections.
(e) To develop more efficient  methods  of  medical  care  for  kidney
disease  and  to  develop  more effective and economical kidney dialysis
equipment.
(f) To survey and evaluate the need  for  a  program  of  professional
education  and  training  for medical students, physicians and nurses in
the care and treatment of kidney diseases.
(h) To enter into such  contracts  and  agreements  with  individuals,
colleges,  universities,  associations, corporations, municipalities and
other units of government as may be deemed necessary  and  advisable  to
carry  out  the  general  intent  and  purposes  of  this  article. Such
contracts may provide for payment by the  state,  within  the  limit  of
funds available, for materials, equipment or services.
2.  The  commissioner  may  adopt  rules  and regulations necessary to
effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-B - Treatment of Hypertension › Title 1 - Mary Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute › 2720 - Legislative Declaration.

§  2720.  Legislative  declaration.    The  rising  incidence of heart
  disease, strokes and hypertension over the past twenty years has  caused
  increasing  awareness  and  concern  among  public  health officials and
  private practitioners. It is imperative that new concepts  be  developed
  to  combat  the  problems  of  heart disease, stroke and hypertension by
  attempting to reduce the causes leading to these diseases.  The  program
  provided  by  this  article is designed to prevent heart disease, stroke
  and hypertension by concentrating on the  elimination  of  risk  factors
  associated  therewith.  In  order  to  provide  for  the  protection and
  promotion of the health of the inhabitants of the state, the  department
  of  health  shall  have the central and comprehensive responsibility for
  the development and administration of the state's policy with respect to
  the conduct of scientific  investigation  and  research  concerning  the
  causes, prevention, treatment and care of hypertension.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-B - Treatment of Hypertension › Title 1 - Mary Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute › 2721 - Mary Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute; Organization.

§  2721.  Mary  Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute; organization.
  The commissioner shall establish  within  the  department  a  heart  and
  hypertension   institute   to   be  named  the  Mary  Lasker  Heart  and
  Hypertension Institute for  the  purpose  of  promoting  the  screening,
  evaluation and methods of treatment of hypertension.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-B - Treatment of Hypertension › Title 1 - Mary Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute › 2722 - Commissioner; Functions, Powers and Duties.

§  2722.  Commissioner;  functions,  powers  and duties.   In order to
  further the declared purposes of this article,  the  commissioner  shall
  have the following functions, powers and duties:
1.  to  conduct scientific investigations into the causes, prevention,
  evaluation and treatment of hypertension;
2. to develop more efficient methods  for  screening,  evaluation  and
  treatment of hypertension;
3.  promote  programs  of  professional  education and training in the
  prevention of heart disease and hypertension and the  rehabilitation  of
  victims  of  heart  disease  and  hypertension  for  physicians, medical
  students,  nurses,  pharmacists  and  persons  in  the   public   health
  profession;
4.  gather  data  and  statistics  relative to the prevention of heart
  disease and hypertension and develop  methods  and  procedures  for  the
  rehabilitation of these victims;
5.   enter  into  such  contracts  and  agreements  with  individuals,
  colleges, universities, associations, corporations,  municipalities  and
  other  units  of  government as may be deemed necessary and advisable to
  carry out the general intent and purposes of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-B - Treatment of Hypertension › Title 2 - Centers for the Treatment of Hypertension › 2723 - Centers for Treatment of Hypertension; Establishment by Commissioner.

§  2723.  Centers  for  treatment  of  hypertension;  establishment by
  commissioner.  Pursuant to rules and regulations of the department,  the
  commissioner  shall  establish  such  centers throughout the state as he
  deems  necessary  to  provide  a  program  of  treatment  and  care  for
  hypertension  and  promote  the  diagnosis,  screening,  evaluation  and
  methods of  treatment  of  hypertension.  The  commissioner  shall  also
  designate  the  geographic  areas  to  be  served by such center and may
  provide for the proper administration of such centers.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-B - Treatment of Hypertension › Title 2 - Centers for the Treatment of Hypertension › 2724 - Commissioner; Additional Functions, Powers and Duties.

§  2724.  Commissioner;  additional  functions, powers and duties.  In
  order to further the declared purposes of this title,  the  commissioner
  shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
1.  to  develop  programs  for  screening, evaluation and treatment of
  hypertension;
2.  to  enter  into  contracts  and  agreements  to  provide  for  the
  screening,  evaluation  and  treatment  of hypertension pursuant to this
  section by July first, nineteen hundred eighty-two;
3. to require as the commissioner may determine to be appropriate that
  any facility established, incorporated, licensed or  regulated  pursuant
  to  the  provisions  of  article  twenty-eight  or  forty-seven  of this
  chapter, test for hypertension as part of  their  ordinary  and  regular
  care  or  treatment  of  patients  and  as  necessary  screen, treat and
  diagnose the incidence of hypertension;
4. to apply for special grants from the  federal  government  and  any
  institution  making  grants  for  such  purposes  and  use any monies so
  obtained to supplement any other monies made available from  any  source
  for the purposes of this title;
5.  to  require  persons  receiving  treatment for hypertension in any
  center providing  such  treatment  to  pay  a  fee  established  by  the
  commissioner  on  a sliding fee scale based on the treatment recipient's
  ability to pay after applying against the total cost of  such  treatment
  the amounts received from third party payors.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 27-C - Birth Defects Institute › 2730 - Declaration of Policy.

§  2730.  Declaration  of  policy.    Occurrence  of  malformation  or
  inherited disease at the time of birth is a tragedy for the  child,  the
  family  and  the  community, and a matter of vital concern to the public
  health. In order to provide for the  protection  and  promotion  of  the
  health  of  the inhabitants of the state, the department of health shall
  have the central and comprehensive responsibility  for  the  development
  and  administration of the state's policy with respect to the conduct of
  scientific  investigations   and   research   concerning   the   causes,
  prevention,  treatment  and cure of birth defects and genetic and allied
  diseases.