Executive Order No. 202.25

The record

Jurisdiction

New York

Level

State

Authority

Executive Law 29-a

Issued

2020-04-29 Apr. 29, 2020

Effective

2020-04-29 (directives 'through May 29, 2020') (read as 2020-04-29)

End

Further modified by EO 202.44 and 202.45 (June 2020) as regions reopened; continued through the series (read as 2020-09-30)

In force

Apr. 29, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020

Quarters

2020 Q22020 Q3

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Health care orders

Addressees

• all general hospitals
• ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery practices and diagnostic and treatment centers (prohibition continued)
• birthing facilities

Functions reached

• SX surgery and elective procedures
• PR elective visits
• OC outpatient clinics
• CB patients
• WF (the order itself recites 'reductions in workforce, including furloughs, that have occurred due to the inability of such facility to perform elective surgeries')

Collection

New York NY

Operative words

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

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