{"id":"NY-019","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Andrew M. Cuomo","authority":"Executive Law 29-a","instrument":"Executive Order No. 202.25","title":"Continuing Temporary Suspension and Modification of Laws Relating to the Disaster Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-04-29","effective":"2020-04-29 (directives \u0027through May 29, 2020\u0027)","end":"Further modified by EO 202.44 and 202.45 (June 2020) as regions reopened; continued through the series","startDate":"2020-04-29","endDate":"2020-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["all general hospitals","ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery practices and diagnostic and treatment centers (prohibition continued)","birthing facilities"],"clause":"The directive contained in Executive Order 202.10 authorizing the Commissioner of Health to direct all general hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery practices and diagnostic and treatment centers to increase the number of beds available to patients, including by canceling all elective surgeries and procedures, is hereby modified only to the extent necessary to authorize general hospitals to perform elective surgeries and procedures so long as the following criteria are met: within a county, the total available hospital inpatient capacity is over thirty percent and the total available hospital ICU capacity is over thirty percent and the total change, from April 17, 2020 to April 27, 2020, in the number of hospitalized patients who are positive for COVID-19 is fewer than ten... General hospitals shall not perform any elective surgery or procedure for patients until each such patient has tested negative for COVID-19","enforcement":"Condition of licensure (Article 28); DOH reporting and waiver process stated in the order","functions":["SX surgery and elective procedures","PR elective visits","OC outpatient clinics","CB patients","WF (the order itself recites \u0027reductions in workforce, including furloughs, that have occurred due to the inability of such facility to perform elective surgeries\u0027)"],"notes":"Ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery and diagnostic and treatment centers remained under the EO 202.10 cancellation until later modification","sourceUrl":"https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-20225-continuing-temporary-suspension-and-modification-laws-relating-disaster-emergency","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200430220423/https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-20225-continuing-temporary-suspension-and-modification-laws-relating-disaster-emergency","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":151264,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NY","url":"/library/NY-019","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NY-019","citation":"Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Executive Order No. 202.25 (Apr. 29, 2020) (Ex. NY-019)","stateName":"New York","related":["NY-020","NY-007","NY-018","NY-017","NY-021","NY-022","NY-016","NY-023","NY-024","NY-025","NY-026","NY-015"]}