Hospitals, birthing centers, institutions, and clinics as well as community health care providers shall allow personnel from the department or its contractors to abstract information from the mother's and child's files on their demographic characteristics, family history of birth defects, prenatal and postnatal procedures, or treatments including diagnostics related to the birth defect, emerging health threats, or stillbirth, and outcomes of this and other pregnancies of the mother. Hospitals, birthing centers, institutions, and clinics as well as community health care providers shall allow personnel from the department or its contractors to abstract information from the affected child's files, throughout their lifespan.

KEY: birth defects, birth defect reporting, critical congenital heart disease (CCHD), CCHD screening

Date of Last Change: December 19, 2023

Notice of Continuation: June 24, 2024

Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 26B-1-202; 26B-4-318; 26B-1-229