California Health and Safety Code

§ 124122

HSC § 124122 Effective Jan 1, 2013Div. 106 · Part 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 6.6

Statute text

(a)(1) Beginning July 1, 2013, a general acute care hospital that has a licensed perinatal service shall offer to parents of a newborn, prior to discharge, a pulse oximetry test for the identification of CCHD.

(2)The State Department of Health Care Services shall issue guidance stating that hospitals perform this test in a manner consistent with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for CCHD screening.

(3)A hospital described in paragraph (1) shall be responsible for developing a screening program that provides competent CCHD screening, utilizes appropriate staff and equipment for administering the testing, completes the testing prior to the newborn’s discharge from a newborn nursery unit, refers infants with abnormal screening results for appropriate care, maintains and reports data as required by the department, and provides physician and family-parent education.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 336, Sec. 2. (AB 1731) Effective January 1, 2013.