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26-17-315
Section 26-17-315 Hospital paternity acknowledgment program. (a) Hospitals that have a licensed
obstetric care unit or are licensed to provide obstetric services or licensed birthing centers
associated with a hospital shall provide to the mother and alleged father, if he is present
in the hospital, during the period immediately preceding or following the birth of a child
to an unmarried woman in the hospital, all of the following: (1) written materials about paternity
establishment; (2) form affidavits of paternity; (3) a written description of the rights and
responsibilities of acknowledging paternity; and (4) an opportunity, prior to discharge from
the hospital, to speak with a trained person made available through the Department of Human
Resources, either by telephone or in person, who can clarify information and answer questions
about paternity establishment. The Department of Human Resources shall make materials available
without cost to the hospitals. If the mother and father...
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26-14-7.2
Section 26-14-7.2 Child denied medical treatment due to parents' religious beliefs. (a) When
an investigation of child abuse or neglect by the Department of Human Resources determines
that a parent or legal guardian legitimately practicing his or her religious beliefs has not
provided specific medical treatment for a child, the parent or legal guardian shall not be
considered a negligent parent or guardian for that reason alone. This exception shall not
preclude a court from ordering that medical services be provided to the child when the child's
health requires it. (b) The department may, in any case, pursue any legal remedies, including
the initiation of legal proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, as may be necessary
to provide medical care or treatment for a child when the care or treatment is necessary to
prevent or remedy serious harm to the child, or to prevent the withholding of medically indicated
treatments from infants with disabilities and with life-threatening...
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22-20-3
Section 22-20-3 Neonatal testing for certain diseases; rules and regulations for treatment
thereof. (a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other persons in charge
of each institution caring for infants 28 days or less of age, or the physician attending
a newborn child or the person attending a newborn child that was not attended by a physician
to cause to have administered to every such infant or child in his care a reliable test for
hypothyroidism and a reliable test for phenylketonuria (PKU), such as the Guthrie test, or
any other test considered equally reliable by the State Board of Health and a reliable test
for sickle cell anemia, sickle cell trait, and/or abnormal hemoglobin and such other tests
relating to mental retardation or other heritable diseases and conditions as are designated
by the Board of Health. Provided, however, that the Board of Health shall designate only conditions
that are detectable by mass screening of newborn infants. Initial mass...
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27-19-38
(a) All individual and group health insurance policies providing coverage on an expense-incurred
basis and individual and group service or indemnity type contracts issued by a nonprofit service
corporation which provide coverage for a family member of the insured or subscriber shall,
as to such family members' coverage, also provide that the health insurance benefits applicable
for children shall be payable with respect to a newly born child of the insured or subscriber
from the moment of birth. (b) The coverage for newly born children shall consist of coverage
of injury or sickness including the necessary care and treatment of medically diagnosed
congenital defects and birth abnormalities, but need not include benefits for routine well-baby
care. (c) The requirements of this section shall apply to all insurance policies and subscriber
contracts renewed, delivered, or issued for delivery in this state, 60 days after April 24,
1975. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 82, p. 311, §§1-3.)...
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27-19-103
would result in economies of acquisition or administration. 3. The benefits are reasonable
in relation to the premiums charged. (5) LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE. Any insurance policy or
rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than 12
consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or
other basis for one or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic,
rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other
than an acute care unit of a hospital. This term includes group and individual annuities and
life insurance policies or riders that provide directly or that supplement long-term care
insurance. This term also includes a policy or rider that provides for payment of benefits
based upon cognitive impairment or the loss of functional capacity. The term shall also include
qualified long-term care insurance contracts. Long-term care insurance may be...
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27-54A-2
Section 27-54A-2 Treatment under certain policies and contracts. (a) As used in this section,
the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS. The design,
implementation, and evaluation of environmental modifications, using behavioral stimuli and
consequences, to produce socially significant improvement in human behavior, including the
use of direct observation, measurement, and functional analysis of the relationship between
environment and behavior. (2) AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. Any of the pervasive developmental
disorders or autism spectrum disorders as defined by the most recent edition of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the edition that was in effect at the
time of diagnosis. (3) BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TREATMENT. Counseling and treatment programs, including
applied behavior analysis that are both of the following: a. Necessary to develop, maintain,
or restore, to the maximum extent practicable, the functioning of an...
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38-7-7
Section 38-7-7 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Department to establish
minimum standards for licensing; factors to be considered; children in need of special treatment;
department to offer consultation. (a) The department shall prescribe and publish minimum standards
for licensing and for approving all child-care facilities, as defined in this chapter. In
establishing such standards the department shall seek the advice and assistance of persons
representative of the various types of child-care facilities. The standards prescribed and
published under this chapter shall include regulations pertaining to: (1) The operation and
conduct of the child-care facility and the responsibility it assumes for child care; (2) The
character, suitability and qualifications of the applicant and other persons directly responsible
for the care and welfare of children served; (3) The general financial ability and competence
of the applicant to provide necessary care for children and to...
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26-22-3
the abortion certifies in writing that, based upon his or her medical examination of the pregnant
woman and his or her medical judgment, the abortion is necessary to prevent either the death
of the pregnant woman or serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major
bodily function. (2) The physician's judgment with respect to the necessity for the abortion
has been concurred in by one other licensed physician who certifies in writing that, based
upon his or her separate personal medical examination of the pregnant woman and his
or her medical judgment, the abortion is necessary to prevent either the death of the pregnant
woman or the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman.
(3) The abortion is performed in a hospital. (4) The physician terminates the pregnancy in
a manner which provides the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive, unless the physician
determines, in his or her good faith medical judgment, that...
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26-23E-2
abortion patients at unreasonable risk. (2) At abortion or reproductive health centers, patients
are often treated in a manner inconsistent with a traditional physician/patient relationship.
(3) Abortion or reproductive health centers are not operated in the same manner as ambulatory
surgical treatment centers or physician offices. (4) Abortion involves not only a surgical
procedure with the usual risks attending surgery, but also involves the taking of human life.
(5) Abortion is a highly personal and very sensitive procedure which results in stress
and concern for the patient that is unique to the decision to have an abortion. (6) Abortion
is a very profitable procedure most often engaged in by stand-alone clinics without many of
the safeguards found in a traditional physician/patient relationship or other medical care
setting. (7) Because abortion and reproductive health centers do not currently provide the
level of personal contact found in many physician/patient relationships and...
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26-23E-4
Section 26-23E-4 Physician requirements. (a) Only a physician may perform an abortion. (b)
During and after an abortion procedure performed at an abortion or reproductive health center,
a physician must remain on the premises until all patients are discharged. The discharge order
must be signed by the physician. Prior to discharge from the facility, the patient shall be
provided with the name and telephone number of the physician who will provide care in the
event of complications, and the name of the medications given at the abortion clinic. (c)
Every physician referenced in this section shall have staff privileges at an acute care hospital
within the same standard metropolitan statistical area as the facility is located that permit
him or her to perform dilation and curettage, laparotomy procedures, hysterectomy, and any
other procedures reasonably necessary to treat abortion-related complications. (Act 2013-79,
p. 165, §4.)...
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