Series 64-91-3 - Definitions
3.1. Birthing
Facility . -- Any licensed medical facility that offers birthing
services.
3.2. Bureau . -- The
Bureau for Public Health in the West Virginia Department of Health and Human
Resources. The bureau is the agency responsible for administering the Newborn
Screening System.
3.3. Commissioner
-- The Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health or his or her
designee.
3.4. Newborn Screening .
-- The statutorily mandated screening of newborns by hospitals, birthing
facilities, physicians or others.
3.5. Newborn Screening System. -- The
coordinated effort by the bureau and West Virginia physicians who deliver and
care for children, to ensure that each newborn child is screened for metabolic
disorders before discharge from birthing facilities. Infants identified with a
disorder must receive continuing care and treatment provided through a
collaborative effort between the primary physician, medical specialist, the
bureau and community support services.
3.6. Office of Maternal, Child and Family
Health. -- The office in the bureau that provides coordination and leadership
in working with public and private community partners and families to assure
the availability and use of health care for all mothers, infants and children
including children with special health care needs.
3.7. Primary Care Provider . -- The physician,
physician's assistant, nurse, nurse practitioner or other licensed medical
professional responsible for the infant's health services during and/or after
discharge from the birthing facility .
3.8. State Laboratory . -- The Department of
Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health's Office of Laboratory
Services, that supplies newborn screening services to all birthing facilities
in the state.
Notes
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