Lawmakers are negotiating the bills in New York’s final budget talks. A few different provisions have been created to oversee hospital management. One would let the DOH remove hospital trustees either by limiting or suspending the hospital’s operating certificates.
Hospitals would also have to give the DOH a 120-day notice if they plan to change a board to allow time for a DOH review and potential rejection. A different provision would grant the DOH the ability to temporarily limit or suspend hospital operating certificates — without any hearings — if a board member is indicted.
Lawmakers have also drafted a provision to allow DOH to remove hospital managers and replace them with temporary operators if there are significant management failures, including serious financial instability, according to the report.
The provisions come after the DOH’s November 2011 report that blamed hospital boards and management for financial problems at Brooklyn facilities. The report recommended the state health commissioner assume power to replace hospital board members deemed ineffective or reorganize management if a facility’s quality is putting patients at risk.
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