Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Institutions or birth attendants shall
provide information about newborn hearing screening to the infant's parents and
primary care providers. This shall include:
(a) information, available to parents at the
time of birth, explaining the purpose of newborn hearing screening, the
procedures used for screening, and outlining the benefits of newborn hearing
screening;
(b) confirmation of
whether each live birth was screened before discharge from the
institution;
(c) disclosure of the
results of the completed newborn hearing screening;
(d) recommendations for follow-up screening
procedures, if necessary, and information on where to obtain those procedures;
and
(e) recommendations for
cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing, as described in Section
26B-7-105, when
appropriate.
(2)
(a) For infants who require additional
procedures to complete the screening process after being discharged from the
birthing institution, the institution shall provide parents and the primary
care providers with written notice about:
(i)
the availability and importance of the additional screening procedures;
and
(ii) when to return to the
institution for outpatient rescreening.
(b) For infants who do not complete
additional hearing screening procedures, the institution shall send a second
written notice to the parents and the primary care provider.
(3) For infants who fail the
complete newborn hearing screening procedure, the institution or the provider
who completes the newborn hearing screening procedure shall provide the parents
and the primary care provider with written notice about the results of the
screening, recommended diagnostic procedures, and where to obtain those
procedures.
(4)
(a) For infants who need additional
procedures to complete the screening due to a missed test, inconclusive
results, or a failure to pass, and who do not return for the needed newborn
hearing screening procedures before ten days of age, or for infants who are
lost to follow-up, the institution or birth attendant shall make reasonable
efforts to locate the parents and inform them of the need for
testing.
(b) The Department
considers a reasonable effort to be:
(i) the
institution or birth attendant possesses documentation of at least two attempts
to contact the infant's parents; and
(ii) at least one attempt to contact the
infant's primary care provider.
(c) If necessary, the institution or birth
attendant must use information available from its own records, adoption
agencies, and the infant's primary care provider. The institution or birth
attendant may contact the parent by mail, email, telephone, text, primary care
provider, or public health worker.
(5) To facilitate additional procedures for
those who fail to pass the newborn hearing screening, a medical director
employed by the Department may issue a standing order for CMV and Auditory
Brainstem Response (ABR) testing.
