N.Y. Public Health Law § 4014: Hospice residence pilot program

§ 4014. Hospice residence pilot program. 1. The commissioner is hereby

authorized to establish a hospice residence pilot program. Such program,

subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner, shall

authorize the operation of not more than ten hospice residences operated

for the purpose of providing more than two hospice patients but not more

than sixteen hospice patients with hospice care. The locations of the

hospice residence pilot program shall be geographically disbursed

throughout the state and approved by the commissioner. To the extent

that patients may access hospital or skilled nursing home care, the care

plan for such patients shall provide for such care.

2. The commissioner shall require each hospice residence participating

in the pilot program established pursuant to this section to submit a

report, which shall include data analyzing the cost and efficiency of

hospice care under such pilot program. On or before December

thirty-first, two thousand seven, the commissioner shall submit a report

to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker

of the assembly analyzing the findings of the individual hospice

residences that participated in the pilot program.