No. CS/HB 503
Filed under Healthcare.
Drowning Prevention Education; Requires DOH to develop educational materials on drowning prevention safety measures & safe bathing practices for specified purposes; provides requirements for such materials; requires hospitals, birth centers, & home birth providers to provide educational materials to new parents & caregivers as part of their postpartum education & care; requires childbirth educators to provide informational materials to parents or caregivers receiving childbirth education from them.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe Department of Health must create educational materials on drowning prevention and safe bathing practices for new parents, covering infant drowning risks, water safety measures, and safe bathing practices in the home.
Hospitals, birth centers, and home birth providers must give these materials to parents or caregivers of newborns as part of their standard postpartum education and care.
Childbirth educators must also hand out these materials to every parent or caregiver enrolled in the childbirth education classes they teach, with no exceptions listed in the bill.
Hospitals' existing postpartum education duties, covering safe sleep and infant eye disorders, are reorganized into a numbered list that now also requires the new drowning prevention materials.
AIDOH must develop educational materials on drowning prevention and safe bathing practices, covering infant drowning risk data, water safety and supervision measures, and evidence-based safe bathing practices, for distribution during postpartum and childbirth education.
AIEach hospital, birth center, and home birth provider offering maternity, prenatal, and newborn services must give the DOH-developed drowning prevention materials to parents or caregivers of a newborn as part of postpartum education and care.
AIChildbirth educators must provide the DOH-developed drowning prevention and safe bathing materials to every parent or caregiver receiving childbirth education from them.
AIBirth centers' existing postpartum evaluation and followup care checklist must now also include providing the drowning prevention and safe bathing materials developed by DOH.
AIHospitals' postpartum education duty is restated as a numbered list of required content: safe sleep information, the eye-disorder pamphlet, and now also the new drowning prevention and safe bathing materials.