N.Y. Public Health Law § 2803-c-1: Rights of patients in certain medical facilities; long-term care ombudsman program

§ 2803-c-1. Rights of patients in certain medical facilities;

long-term care ombudsman program. 1. Each nursing home and residential

health care facility providing health related service, as defined in

subdivisions two and three and paragraph (b) of subdivision four of

section twenty-eight hundred one of this article, shall post in a

conspicuous place or places where notices to residents are customarily

posted, and shall provide each member of the facility's staff, and each

patient and their appointed personal representative at or prior to the

time of admission to the facility, or at the time of the

representative's appointment, the following contact information:

(a) contact information for the state and relevant regional office of

the long-term care ombudsman program as provided for in section two

hundred eighteen of the elder law; and

(b) contact information for the department's nursing home complaint

hotline.

2. Nursing homes and residential health care facilities shall provide

updated contact information for the state and relevant regional offices

of the long-term care ombudsman program to all residents and their

appointed personal representatives twice a year.