Continuing the Declaration of a Statewide Disaster Emergency Due to Healthcare Staffing Shortages in the State of New York
No. 4.12
E X E C U T I V E O R D E R
Continuing the Declaration of a Statewide Disaster Emergency Due to Healthcare Staffing Shortages in the State of New York
WHEREAS, there are staffing shortages in hospitals and other healthcare facilities and they are expected continue;
WHEREAS, severe understaffing in hospitals and other healthcare facilities is expected to continue to effect the ability to provide critical care and to adequately serve vulnerable populations;
WHEREAS, there is an immediate and critical need to supplement staffing to assure hospitals and healthcare facilities can provide care;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the New York State Constitution and the laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency as set forth in Executive Order 4, as continued by its successors and Executive Order 4.11, and do hereby continue the terms, conditions, and suspensions contained therein until September 27, 2022, provided however, that the following modifications will take effect:
- The suspensions made to Section 4903 of the Insurance Law and Section 4903 of the Public Health Law by Executive Order 4 are hereby terminated; and
- The tolling of statutory timeframes required for hospital submission of an internal appeal and external appeal set forth in subsection c of Section 4904 of the Insurance Law, paragraph 1 of subsection b of Section 4914 of the Insurance Law, subdivision 3 of section 4904 of the Public Health Law, and paragraph a of subdivision 2 of Section 4914 of the Public Health Law, are hereby terminated, and any such appeals pending or in progress at the time the tolling provisions of Executive Order 4 took effect shall have their statutory timeframes reset.
G I V E N under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State in the City of Albany this twenty-eighth day of August in the year two thousand twenty-two.
BY THE GOVERNOR
Secretary to the Governor