Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-34-19 - Pediatric department
Hospitals with an organized pediatric department shall provide facilities for the care of children, apart from the services for adult patients and from the newborn nursery, and there shall be proper facilities and procedures for the isolation of children with infectious, contagious or communicable conditions.
(a) The
pediatric department shall be under the supervision of a designated staff
physician.
(b) Hospitals providing
pediatric care shall be evaluated and approved on the basis of the size of the
service, the personnel, facilities, policies, and procedures.
(c) The newborn nursery and the pediatric
department shall not be used for boarding care of illegitimate, dependent,
neglected, or defective children. If, at the end of the period for which
progressive medical care is indicated, the hospital is unable to properly
discharge such infants, their presence shall be reported to the division of
maternal and child health of the state department of health for suitable action
by said department.
(d) Policies
shall be established to cover conditions under which parents may stay with
small children or "room-in" with their hospitalized child for moral support and
assistance with care.
(e) There
shall be appropriate referrals to public health nurses or other agencies for
followup care as needed.
(f)
Adolescents shall be separated from younger children. Reasonable privacy,
without limiting necessary observation, shall be available for adolescents.
Notes
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