N.Y. PBH Law § 2998

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Patient safety center

Official statutory text

§ 2998. Patient safety center. 1. There is established within the\ndepartment a patient safety center, referred to in this article as "the\ncenter".\n 2. The purpose of the center is to maximize patient safety, reduce\nmedical errors, and improve the quality of health care by improving\nsystems of data reporting, collection, analysis and dissemination, and\nto improve public access to health care information not otherwise\nrestricted.\n

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