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Title: Section 795.11 - Midwifery birth center accreditation

Effective Date

11/13/2019

Section 795.11 Midwifery birth center accreditation.

(a) Midwifery birth centers must comply with sections 400.2 through 400.7, 400.9, and 400.10, and sections 751.5 through 751.10 of this Title and must comply with evidence-based standards for midwifery birth centers published by a national standards body selected by the Department and published on the Department’s website. The Department may accept, as evidence of compliance with minimum operational standards in this subdivision, accreditation by an accreditation agency that the Department has determined has accrediting standards sufficient to assure the Department that midwifery birth centers so accredited are in compliance with such minimum operational standards. The Department may enter into collaborative agreements with one or more accreditation agencies to provide that such an agency’s accreditation survey can be used in lieu of a survey by the Department. As part of such collaborative agreements, an accreditation agency may, at the Department’s discretion, investigate complaints received by the Department related to care and services provided by a midwifery birth center. Notwithstanding any such collaborative agreements, the Department reserves the right to survey any midwifery birth center for compliance with the evidence-based standards established pursuant to this section. A list of accreditation agencies with which the Department has a collaborative agreement will be posted on the Department’s website.

(b) Except as otherwise prohibited by law, all survey reports, complaint investigation results, plans of correction, interim self-evaluation reports, certificates of accreditation, notices of noncompliance, or any other document, provided to the Department by an accreditation agency, pursuant to a collaborative agreement with the Department, shall be subject to public disclosure.

(c) The midwifery birth center shall notify the Department in writing within seven days of failure to be accredited, re-accredited or the loss of accreditation by the accreditation agency.

 

Statutory Authority

Public Health Law, Sections 2801 and 2803(11)

Volume

VOLUME E (Title 10)

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