Utah Admin. Code R432-550-4 - Definitions
(1) Common definitions Section
R432-1-3.
(2) Special Definitions:
(a) "Alongside midwifery unit" means a
birthing unit that may be licensed as a birthing center and is connected to a
hospital facility, either through a bridge, ramp, or adjacent to the labor and
delivery unit within the hospital with care provided with the midwifery model
of care, where maternal patients are received and care provided during labor,
delivery, and immediately after delivery.
(b) "Birth room" means a room and environment
designed, equipped and arranged to provide for the care of a maternal patient
and newborn and to accommodate a maternal patient's support person during the
process of vaginal birth and recovery. "Birth room" does not include rooms
intended for pre-admittance or post-discharge accommodations of maternal
patients and their newborns.
(c)
"Birthing center" means a facility, receiving maternal patients and providing
care during labor, delivery and immediately after delivery; including an
alongside midwifery unit.
(d)
Certification in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) refers to certification
issued after completion of a course that is consistent with the most current
version of the American Heart Association Guidelines for Health Care Provider
CPR.
(e) "Patient" means a woman or
newborn receiving care and services provided by a birthing center during labor,
childbirth and recovery.
(f)
"Clinical staff" means a licensed maternity care practitioner appointed by the
governing authority to practice within the birthing center and governed by
rules approved by the governing body.
(g) "Support person" means the individual or
individuals selected or chosen by a patient to provide emotional support and to
assist her during the process of labor and childbirth.
(h) "Vaginal birth" means the three stages of
labor.
(i) "Licensed maternity care
practitioner" means a person licensed to provide maternity care services
including physicians licensed under Title 58, Chapters 67 and 68, Certified
Nurse-Midwives licensed under Title 58, Chapter 44a, Naturopathic Physicians
licensed under Title 58, Chapter 71, Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives licensed
under Title 58, chapter 77, and others licensed to provide maternity,
midwifery, or obstetric care under Title 58.
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