Patient Safety
The Academy is dedicated to advocating for laws and policies that protect patients’ rights and ensure fair treatment within the healthcare system.
Legislative Advocacy for Patients’ Rights
- Lobbying for Stronger Protections: The Academy employs professional lobbyists to advocate for robust patients’ rights laws. This includes pushing for legislation that ensures patients receive timely, respectful, and dignified care, and that their privacy and confidentiality are protected.
- Supporting Comprehensive Healthcare Laws: The Academy supports legislation that holds healthcare providers accountable for negligence and malpractice. This includes advocating for laws that provide clear guidelines on patients’ rights to informed consent, access to medical records, and the ability to seek second opinions.
By focusing on these advocacy efforts, the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers plays a crucial role in promoting laws and policies that protect patients’ rights, ultimately ensuring fair treatment and high-quality care within the healthcare system.
Bill
Description
Position/Status
A578
Relates to professional misconduct of medical professionals
Relates to professional misconduct of medical professionals involving felonies committed in the course of the licensee's medical practice; provides for license revocation.
Support
A1596
Requires reporting of a criminal conviction and sentence of a physician
Requires the reporting of convictions and sentences of certain medical professionals to the office of professional medical conduct within twenty-four hours; requires the department of health to disseminate a criminal conviction and sentence of a physician within forty-eight hours of receipt.
Support
A7671
Requires certain health care providers to disclose the fact that the provider is on probation to current and new patients
Requires certain health care providers to disclose the fact that the provider is on probation to current and new patients.
Support
S6192
Relates to the time to commence certain medical malpractice actions
Extends medical malpractice statute of limitation related to acts or omissions of hospitals where an incident report is required to be filed to one year after the required filing when the incident report isn't submitted.
Support