New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 9 - Executive Orders (Kathy Hochul) › Section 9.93 - Executive Order No. 93: Continuing the Declaration of a Statewide Disaster Emergency Due to Healthcare Staffing Shortages in the State of New York

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, there are staffing shortages in hospitals and
					 other healthcare facilities and they are expected to continue;
WHEREAS, severe understaffing in hospitals and other
					 healthcare facilities is expected to continue to affect the ability to provide
					 critical care and to adequately serve vulnerable populations;
WHEREAS, there is an immediate and critical need to
					 supplement staffing to assure hospitals and healthcare facilities can provide
					 care;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of
					 New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the New York State
					 Constitution and the laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state
					 disaster emergency as set forth in Executive Order 4, as continued by its
					 successors, and do hereby continue the terms, conditions, and suspensions
					 contained in Executive Order 4 and its successors, until March 23, 2023;
					 provided, however, that the following suspensions and modifications of law
					 shall no longer be in effect:
* Section 6524  of the Education Law, section
					 60.7 of title 8 of NYRR and section
					 paragraph (1) of subdivision (g) 405.4 of title 10 of the NYCRR to the extent
					 necessary to allow any physician who will graduate in 2021 or 2022 from an
					 academic medical program accredited by a medical education accrediting agency
					 for medical education by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the
					 American Osteo-pathic Association, and has been accepted by an Accreditation
					 Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited residency program within or
					 outside of New York State to practice at any institution under the supervision
					 of a licensed physician;
* Sections 6512 through 6516, and 6524  of the Education Law
					 and Part 60 of Title 8 of the NYCRR, to the extent necessary to allow
					 individuals, who graduated from registered or accredited medical programs
					 located in New York State in 2021, to practice medicine in New York State,
					 without the need to obtain a license and without civil or criminal penalty
					 related to lack of licensure, provided that the practice of medicine by such
					 graduates shall in all cases be supervised by a physician licensed and
					 registered to practice medicine in the State of New York;
* Subdivision (b) of section
					 405.3 of Title 10 of the NYCRR, to
					 the extent necessary to allow general hospitals to use qualified volunteers or
					 personnel affiliated with different general hospitals, subject to the terms and
					 conditions established by the Commissioner of Health; and
* Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (g) of
					 10 N.Y.C.R.R. section 405.4, to the extent necessary to allow graduates of
					 foreign medical schools having at least one year of graduate medical education
					 to provide patient care in hospitals, is modified so as to allow such graduates
					 without licenses to provide patient care in hospitals if they have completed at
					 least one year of graduate medical education.
(L.S.) GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State
					 in the City of Albany this twenty-first day of February in the year two
					 thousand twenty-three.
BY THE GOVERNOR
/S/ Kathy Hochul
/s/ Karen Persichilli Keogh
Secretary to the Governor