File #: Int 0912-2023    Version: * Name: Requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to prepare and submit a plan to improve nurse staffing levels at hospitals.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Hospitals
On agenda: 2/2/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to prepare and submit a plan to improve nurse staffing levels at hospitals
Sponsors: Mercedes Narcisse, Tiffany Cabán, Kevin C. Riley, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Shaun Abreu, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Gale A. Brewer, Sandra Ung, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 10
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to prepare a plan to improve nurse staffing levels at hospitals. The Department would prepare the plan in consultation with the Health and Hospitals Corporation and nurses employed by city hospitals. The plan would include a strategy to reduce the nurse-to-patient ratio, suggest a safe nurse-to-patient ratio, and address ways to increase and strengthen the nursing workforce. The report would be due to the Speaker of the Council and the Mayor by January 1, 2024.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 912, 2. Int. No. 912, 3. February 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-2-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 2, 2023
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12/31/2023*Mercedes Narcisse City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/2/2023*Mercedes Narcisse City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/2/2023*Mercedes Narcisse City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 912

 

By Council Members Narcisse, Cabán, Riley, Restler, Hudson, Abreu, Richardson Jordan, Brewer, Ung and Louis

 

A Local Law in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to prepare and submit a plan to improve nurse staffing levels at hospitals

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. No later than January 1, 2024, the department of health and mental hygiene, in consultation with the New York city health and hospitals corporation and nurses employed by city hospitals, shall prepare and submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on its website, a plan to improve nurse staffing levels at hospitals. Such plan shall include, but need not be limited to, recommendations for interagency protocols designed to:

a. Reduce the nurse-to-patient ratio, including strategies for recruitment and retention of nursing staff;

b. Develop a safe nurse-to-patient ratio to serve as a standard; and

c. Increase and strengthen the nursing workforce, including by identifying and promoting opportunities for professional development.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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