Health facilities: perinatal services.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Overview
This bill requires California general acute care hospitals to begin providing perinatal services, which are services related to care during and after pregnancy. Hospitals will need to develop a ‘perinatal service compliance plan’ and submit it to the Department of Public Health. The bill also clarifies that perinatal services are considered a basic service, and provides a process for hospitals to meet this requirement, including potential agreements with other hospitals to provide these services.
Key provisions
- Includes perinatal services as a basic service for general acute care hospitals.
- Requires hospitals to develop and submit a ‘perinatal service compliance plan’ to the Department of Public Health.
- Establishes a process for the Department of Public Health to approve or deny compliance plans.
- Specifies information required in the ‘perinatal service compliance plan’.
- Defines ‘perinatal services’ as care during and after pregnancy.
- Provides an exception for rural general acute care hospitals that meet specific criteria.
- Addresses reimbursement for local agencies, exempting them from cost reimbursement for this act.
- Clarifies that this act creates a state-mandated local program.
Who is affected
- General acute care hospitals
- Patients receiving prenatal and postnatal care
- The California Department of Public Health
- Local governments (through potential state-mandated programs)
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