The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.Y. Exec. Law 29-a
- Issued
- 2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23
- End
- Suspension provisions renewed in 30-day increments; elective restrictions relaxed by county under EO 202.25 (Apr. 29, 2020) and DOH guidance (May 13, 2020); EO 202 series expired June 24, 2021 (read as 2020-04-29)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to Apr. 29, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capHealth care orders
- Addressees
- all general hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery practices and diagnostic and treatment centers
- Functions reached
- SX elective cancellation
- IP capacity increase and COVID-19 plans
- OC
- CB
- OF
- Collection
- Hospitals and Health Systems SEC-01
Operative words
The Commissioner of Health is authorized to direct, and shall so 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, as the Commissioner of Health shall define. General hospitals shall comply with such order by submitting COVID-19 Plans to the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH)... (quoted from the ACS tracker; the saved PDF is a scan)
Enforcement
Exec. Law 29-a; Public Health Law 12 penalties; DOH directive of Mar. 25, 2020 required 50 percent bed-capacity increase plans
Notes
Also bars non-essential gatherings of any size (para. on gatherings). The DOH directive of Mar. 25, 2020 implementing it required every hospital to plan a 50 percent (and up to 100 percent) increase in bed capacity (verified_secondary).
Retrieval noteScanned; operative words from ACS (SEC-01-030).