New York Public Health Law Section 2742 - Functions, powers and duties of the department.

 2742. Functions, powers and duties of the department. The department
  shall have the following powers and duties:

1. to develop a comprehensive statewide program that includes medical,
  housing, vocational, educational, transportation, social, personal care,
  family  support,  day  program  services,  community  re-entry services,
  outpatient rehabilitation services and other essential services;

2. to develop outreach services  to  provide  coordinated  information
  regarding  assistance  available  to persons with traumatic brain injury
  and their families;

3. to develop and maintain a clearinghouse of information on traumatic
  brain injuries and concussions, including but not limited to,  resources
  that  support  the  development  and  implementation  of community-based
  services and rehabilitation;

4. to track the amount of and cost of  services  provided  to  persons
  with traumatic brain injury placed in out-of-state treatment settings;

5.  to  develop  innovative  educational  programs  on  the causes and
  prevention of traumatic brain injuries and concussions, with an emphasis
  on outreach campaigns. Such programs and information shall include,  but
  not  be  limited  to,  treatment and services for persons with traumatic
  brain injury and/or a concussion and their families;

6. to  accept  and  expend  any  grants,  awards  of  other  funds  or
  appropriations  as  may  be  available  for  these  purposes, subject to
  limitations as to the approval of expenditures and audits as  prescribed
  for state funds by the state finance law;

7. to gather and disseminate statistics and conduct investigations and
  research  relating  to  the  causes  and  prevention  of traumatic brain
  injuries and concussions and the treatment of such  injuries,  including
  the  methods  and  procedures for rehabilitation, including from time to
  time, such  publications  for  distribution  to  appropriate  scientific
  organizations;

8.  to contract with independent consultants to conduct assessments of
  the needs of persons with traumatic brain injury;

9. to develop training programs for persons providing discharge  plans
  and case management; and

10.  to  develop standards for licensing or certifying residential and
  non-residential services for persons with traumatic brain injury to  the
  extent  that such services are not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction
  of another state agency.

Last modified: February 3, 2019