Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL
Part V - Preventive Health Services
Subpart 7 - Maternal and Child Health Services
Chapter 22 - Identification of Hearing Impairment in Infants
Section V-2205 - Procedures for Hospitals

A. Hospitals shall complete the newborn screening report on all live births.

B. Hospitals shall conduct hearing screening on all newborn infants before discharge.

C. Hospitals shall record the results of the hearing screening on the newborn hearing screening report.

D. Hospitals shall disseminate copies of the newborn hearing screening report to the parent, the office (within 14 calendar days of discharge), and the infant's primary health care provider.

E. If an infant is born in one hospital and transferred to one or more hospital(s), the last hospital to which the infant is transferred before being discharged into the care of a parent, or guardian for purposes other than transport, must complete the newborn infant hearing report and perform the hearing screening.

F. If an infant is to be placed for adoption and is to be transferred to another hospital for adoption, the hospital at which the infant is born is to complete the newborn hearing screening report and perform the hearing screening (unless §2205. E above applies). The parent copy of the newborn hearing screening report shall be sent to the guardian.

G. Referrals for infants failing the hospital screening process must be made within seven days of discharge to the infant's primary health care provider and a licensed audiologist.