N.Y. Public Health Law 3066 – Powers and duties of the department
§ 3066. Powers and duties of the department. 1. The department shall continue facilitation, development, and periodic revision of appropriateness review standards for emergency medical and trauma care, including appropriateness review standards for emergency departments and services and trauma centers and stations under article twenty-eight of this chapter, by the state emergency medical advisory committee or the state trauma advisory committee, as appropriate, for adoption by the state hospital review and planning council, subject to approval by the commissioner.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 3066
- Disaster preparedness: means the state of readiness necessary to respond to natural or man-made disasters, including but not limited to biologic, nuclear, incendiary, chemical, and explosive disasters. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- Emergency medical care: means the initial management, treatment, and transfer of suddenly ill or injured patients. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- Interoperability: means the capacity of all emergency medical, trauma care, and disaster preparedness response systems to collaborate and communicate during an emergency, trauma, or disaster response. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- State emergency medical advisory committee: means the state emergency medical advisory committee established by section three thousand two-a of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- State emergency medical services council: means the state emergency medical services council established by section three thousand two of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- State hospital review and planning council: means the state hospital review and planning council established by section twenty-nine hundred four of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- State trauma advisory committee: means the state trauma advisory committee continued by this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- Transport system: means an organized health care and transportation system to provide prehospital transport and interfacility transfer to critically ill or injured patients. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- Trauma care: means health care provided to patients at high risk of death or disability from multiple and severe injuries. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
- Trauma system: means an organized health care system to provide trauma care in, or en route to, from, or between general hospitals or other health care facilities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
2. The department shall continue the categorization of general hospitals and other health care facilities for emergency medical care and trauma care under article twenty-eight of this chapter, and the designation of emergency facilities in general hospitals and other health care facilities, as emergency departments or emergency services appropriate for emergency medical care and general hospitals and other health care facilities as trauma centers or trauma stations appropriate for trauma care, based upon such categorization, after appropriate on-site verification.
3. The department shall continue development and maintenance of statewide and regional quality improvement programs for trauma and disaster care in a manner consistent with the intent and provisions of sections twenty-eight hundred five-j, three thousand two-a and three thousand four-a of this chapter, incorporating quality improvement programs for all components of the trauma system involved in trauma care including, but not limited to fully integrated statewide and regionwide trauma registries, and the ways and means to support them.
4. The department shall develop and periodically revise a comprehensive emergency medical and trauma care plan with the advice of the state emergency medical services council, the state emergency medical advisory committee and the state trauma advisory committee, incorporating injury control programs and ongoing quality assurance measures for all components of the trauma system involved in trauma care.
5. The department shall develop and periodically revise medical and operational guidelines for a fully integrated statewide transport system, with the advice of the state emergency medical services council, the state emergency medical advisory committee and the state trauma advisory committee subject to approval by the commissioner, and shall develop and maintain a statewide system for coordination of interfacility transfers.
6. The department shall develop and periodically revise medical and operational guidelines for a fully integrated statewide medical disaster preparedness response, with the advice of the state emergency medical services council, the state emergency medical advisory committee, and the state trauma advisory committee, subject to approval by the commissioner, and shall develop and maintain a statewide system for coordination of medical disaster preparedness and trauma system planning.
7. The department shall facilitate the coordination and implementation of regional emergency medical system, trauma system, and medical disaster preparedness response plans, with the advice of the regional emergency medical services councils, the regional emergency medical advisory committees, and the regional trauma advisory committees, and shall promote full interoperability of all response and communications systems.