State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Pbh > Article-29-d > Title-2 > 2998-b§ 2998-b. Safety goals. 1. The center shall: (a) Promote the development and dissemination or regional and statewide performance information, and efforts by health care organizations, health plans, health care providers and health care professionals to participate in voluntary, cooperative efforts to improve patient safety and health care quality, consistent with state law; (b) Utilize the information collected pursuant to this title to recommend statewide medical safety goals and track the progress of health care providers in meeting these safety goals; (c) Develop programs to assure the validity of statewide data reporting systems, including the use of random audit; (d) Analyze and report on health care performance of health care providers and health care professionals in New York state pursuant to this title; and (e) Report its findings, in aggregate, and recommendations to the governor and legislature within twenty-four months of the effective date of this section and reevaluate and update at regular intervals findings and recommendations.
