N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 18, § 507.5 – Emergency medical treatment for children in foster care.

(a) procedures are developed and implemented for receiving requests for consent, and obtaining prompt consent, at any hour of the day or night;
(b) foster parents are fully informed of those procedures at the time of placement; and
(c) consents are promptly made available to the provider.

Social services officials shall establish a procedure under which an immediate determination as to permission for emergency medical treatment will be sought from the person having custody of a child for each child for whom a district provides or purchases foster care; immediate determinations will be sought when emergency medical treatment is necessary and the provider of medical services requires a consent. Each local social services department shall assure that: