Long-Term Care

Staff information fair game at New York healthcare facilities

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, October 8, 2009

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Beginning March 16, 2010, New York nursing homes and other healthcare facilities will be required to publically release staff information, including staff-patient ratios, in accordance with the state’s newly adopted Nursing Care Quality Protection Act, according to PHInational.org.

Governor David Patterson signed the bill in mid-September, requiring facilities to disclose not only changes in staff, but also the methods used to decide direct-care staffing. The law, backed by the New York State Nurses Association but opposed by the Healthcare Association of New York State and the New York Organization of Nurse Executives, also applies to hospitals, and diagnostic and treatment providers.



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