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2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 216 - Health facilities and services
216.2970 Auditory screening of infants at hospitals and birthing centers -- Forwarding of reports.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 216.2970 (2021)
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216.2970 Auditory screening of infants at hospitals and birthing centers -Forwarding of reports. (1) (2) (3) As a condition of licensure or relicensure, all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers with at least forty (40) births per year shall provide an auditory screening for all infants using one (1) of the methods approved by the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs by administrative regulation promulgated in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A. An auditory screening report that indicates a finding of potential hearing loss shall be forwarded by the hospital or alternative birthing center within twenty-four (24) hours of receipt to the: (a) Attending physician or health care provider; (b) Parents; (c) Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs for evaluation or referral for further evaluation in accordance with KRS 211.647; and (d) Audiological assessment and diagnostic center approved by the office if a follow-up assessment has been scheduled prior to the infant's discharge from the hospital. An auditory screening report that does not indicate a potential hearing loss shall be forwarded within one (1) week to the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs with no information that personally identifies the child. Effective: June 25, 2009 History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 102, sec. 3, effective June 25, 2009. -- Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 11, effective July 14, 2000. Legislative Research Commission Note (8/23/2019). In 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 1, the General Assembly renamed the "Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs" as the "Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs." A reference to that "commission" was changed to "office" in subsection (2)(d) of this statute. This name correction should have been addressed when 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 114 was codified, but it wasn't. This change is being made now under the authority of KRS 7.136(2). Legislative Research Commission Note (7/14/2018). Under the authority of KRS 7.136(2), one or more references to the "Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs" in this statute have been changed in codification to the "Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs" to reflect the renaming of the commission by the General Assembly in 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 114.
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