Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 1 - Administration
Chapter 12 - Facilities and Local Units
Article 9 - Free-standing Birth Centers
7 AAC 12.404 - Application
Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 12.404
Current through August 30, 2024
Before providing services, a free-standing birth center must have a current license issued under 7 AAC 12.605 - 7 AAC 12.610. In addition to meeting the requirements of 7 AAC 12.605 - 7 AAC 12.610, the applicant shall provide the following information with the initial application for a license, and with each application for renewal:
(1) identification of the proposed service area;
(2) an assessment of the demographic data and vital statistics of the community served, including
(A) the population to be served;
(B) environmental factors that might affect
access to the birth center or transfer to a hospital;
(C) availability of and access to maternal
and newborn services, including
(i)
practitioners;
(ii) hospital
obstetrics and newborn services;
(iii) home birth services;
(iv) family-centered maternity care
programs;
(v) birth rooms and
suites;
(vi) clinics for
disadvantaged families;
(vii)
laboratory services;
(viii)
supplementary social and welfare services;
(ix) childbirth education; and
(x) parent support programs;
(D) the birth center's impact on
the community and the needs of childbearing families in the population served;
and
(E) for an application for
license renewal,
(i) changes in the
demographic data and vital statistics under (A) - (C) of this paragraph since
the previous application was submitted;
(ii) the number of births at the birth center
during the previous 12 months;
(iii) the number of births with complications
that required transfer of the newborn to a hospital during the previous 12
months; and
(iv) the number of
births with complications that required transfer of the client to a hospital
during the previous 12 months.
Authority:AS 47.32.010
AS 47.32.020
AS 47.32.030
AS 47.32.040
AS 47.32.050
AS 47.32.100
AS 47.32.110
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