New York Consolidated Laws, Executive Law - EXC § 522. Actions against persons rendering health care services at the request of the division;  defense and indemnification

The provisions of section seventeen of the public officers law shall apply to any person holding a license to practice a profession pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty-one-B, one hundred thirty-two, one hundred thirty-three, one hundred thirty-six, one hundred thirty-seven, one hundred thirty-nine, one hundred forty-one, one hundred forty-three, one hundred fifty-six or one hundred fifty-nine of the education law, who is rendering or has rendered professional services authorized under such license while acting at the request of the division or a facility of the division in providing health care and treatment or professional consultation to residents of division facilities, or to infants of residents while such infants are cared for in division facilities pursuant to section five hundred sixteen of this article, without regard to whether such health care and treatment or professional consultation is provided within or without a division facility.