2015 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 29-B - (Public Health) ORDERS NOT TO RESUSCITATE FOR RESIDENTS OF MENTAL HYGIENE FACILITIES
2979 - Rights to be publicized.

NY Pub Health L § 2979 (2015) What's This?

2979. Rights to be publicized. 1. The commissioners of mental health and mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall prepare a statement summarizing the rights, duties, and requirements of this article and shall require that a copy of such statement:

(a) be furnished by the hospital to patients or to persons on the surrogate list known to the hospital at or prior to the time of admission to the hospital, and at the time of the first decision made pursuant to sections twenty-nine hundred sixty-four, twenty-nine hundred sixty-five, twenty-nine hundred sixty-six, or twenty-nine hundred sixty-seven of this article or as soon thereafter as practicable and to each member of the hospital's staff involved in the provision of medical care; and

(b) is posted in a public place in each hospital.

2. The statement of rights required by this section may be included in any other statement of patient's rights required by other provisions of this chapter.


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