Relates to staffing at state-operated facilities that deliver health care services

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◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Samra Brouk says this is needed

Chapter 155 of the laws of 2021 established clinical staffing committees and required the disclosure of nurse quality indicators to improve the quality of care in hospitals covered by article 28 of the public health law. This law requires the establishment of a staffing committee to determine appropriate nurse staffing ratios for patient care. This legislation expands Chapter 155 of the laws of 2021 to include all facilities operated by the state that provide health care services pursuant to the mental health law, the education law, the correction law or the executive law. Last year, OMH, OPWDD, OCFS and DOCCS staff worked a combined 14 million hours of overtime. Because these agencies are not covered by the staffing committee law, health care professionals and patients are left vulnerable to unilateral management staffing deci- sions. Many health care professionals at these facilities have raised concerns about patient care and the lack of input into staffing deci- sions as management increasingly relies on overtime to meet staffing needs. This legislation is needed to recognize the professional recommendations of licensed health care professionals in the treatment of their patients and to give health care professionals input into agency staffing plan- ning.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.