N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2509-B

Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 553

Section 2509-B - Pre-term labor care

1. When an expectant mother presents at a general hospital with concerns about being in pre-term labor, the general hospital shall:

(a) determine whether the expectant mother is in pre-term labor;

(b) upon making a diagnosis of pre-term labor, admit the expectant mother to the general hospital or treat her in the emergency room for close observation and continuous monitoring until it is deemed medically safe for discharge from the general hospital or stabilize and arrange for an appropriate transfer of such expectant mother to another general hospital; and

(c) provide the expectant mother with information concerning pre-term labor and the potential health effects of pre-term labor and premature birth delivery on the mother and on her fetus as required by section twenty-eight hundred three-j of this chapter.

2. As used in this section, "general hospital" means a general hospital as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter.

N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2509-B

Repealed by New York Laws 2021, ch. 66,Sec. 1, eff. 12/22/2021.

Added by New York Laws 2020, ch. 348,Sec. 2, eff. 2/20/2021.

See New York Laws 2021, ch. 66, Sec. 7.