New York Laws
Article 28 - Hospitals
2803-C - Rights of Patients in Certain Medical Facilities.

(o) Every patient shall have the right to authorize those family
members and other adults who will be given priority to visit consistent
with the patient's or resident's ability to receive visitors.
p. A statement informing the patient of his or her right to make
organ, tissue or whole body donations, and the means by which the
patient may make such a donation. The commissioner shall promulgate any
rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this
paragraph.
q. A statement indicating the policy of the facility regarding the
granting of physician privileges to residents.
r. Every patient shall have the right to remain in care unless the
patient is appropriately discharged or transferred in accordance with
section two thousand eight hundred three-z of this article and a
residential health care facility shall not attempt to compel or
retaliate against an individual that chooses to remain in care.
4. Each facility shall give a copy of the statement to each patient at
or prior to the time of admission to the facility, or to the appointed
personal representative at the time of appointment and to each member of
the facility's staff.
5. Each facility shall prepare a written plan and provide appropriate
staff training to implement each patient's right included in the
statement.
6. The department shall translate and make available to all facilities
the statement in the ten most common non-English languages spoken by
individuals with limited-English proficiency in New York state as based
on the most recent United States census. Each facility shall post and
make available copies of said statement for residents under subdivisions
one, two, and four of this section.

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