Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R398 - Family Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs
Rule R398-2 - Newborn Hearing Screening: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program
Section R398-2-6 - Reporting to Utah Department of Health and Human Services
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
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(2) Each institution shall submit, to the Department, a summary of the procedures used by the institution or screening program to do newborn hearing screening, including the name of the program director, overseeing audiologist, equipment, screening protocols, pass-fail criteria, and parent education materials and other information as determined by the Department. The institution shall provide this information to the Department bi-annually and within 30 days of any changes to the existing procedures.
(3) Persons who conduct any procedure necessary to complete an infant's hearing screening or audiological diagnostic assessment, shall report the results of these procedures to the institution where the infant was born and to the Department within seven days.
(4) The Department shall have access to infants' medical, diagnostic, amplification, implantation, and early intervention records to obtain information necessary to ensure the provision of timely and appropriate follow-up diagnostic and intervention services, including CMV testing results and follow-up, congenital CMV sequelae, treatments, and anything else deemed necessary to determine long-term outcomes.
(5) Providers who diagnose an infant or child as deaf or hard of hearing shall refer the families to early intervention and family to family support services. To facilitate timely intervention services, the provider shall: