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TN Code § 68-1-804 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 8 - Perinatal and Neonatal Care|§ 68-1-804. Items to Be Considered for Inclusion in Program

 The department, with the advice of the committee, shall, in developing the plan for this program, consider the feasibility of designing this program so as to:   Develop standards for determining eligibility for diagnosis and treatment under this program;   Assist in the regional development, expansion and maintenance of newborn centers, including purchase of equipment, for the diagnosis and treatment of high-risk pregnant women and their fetuses and newborn infants;   Extend financial assistance in order to provide diagnosis of and treatment for pregnant women and their fetuses and newborn infants, by providing necessary medical, surgical, hospital, outpatient clinic and ambulatory services;   Develop a regional system or systems of rapid transportation and referral to the obstetrical and newborn centers from throughout the state for pregnant women and their fetuses and newborns who require life-sustaining care;   Develop or expand regional education and training activities to further facilitate meeting the intent of this part;   Employ all necessary administrative personnel as may be provided in the budget to carry out this part;   Promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this part;   Develop or expand a communication/consultation system or systems;   In consultation with organizations representing state pediatric physicians, develop appropriate standards for the dissemination of information and educational material about conditions and diseases that commonly affect newborn infants, such as respiratory syncytial virus; and   Assist in the regional development, expansion, and maintenance of specialty level II birthing centers in every health region with certified obstetricians and pediatricians available who are trained in the prevention, early diagnoses, treatment, and stabilization of complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
TN Code § 68-1-805 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 8 - Perinatal and Neonatal Care|§ 68-1-805. Report Regarding Births Involving Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Opioid Use by Women of Childbearing Age

 On or before January 15, 2018, the commissioner of health, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee and with the assistance of relevant state agencies, shall report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate concerning the following aspects of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age for the last two (2) available fiscal years or calendar years, as may be available:   From data available to the bureau of TennCare, the number of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome to enrollees in the TennCare program, the lengths of stay in a hospital for infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome to enrollees in the TennCare program, and the costs to the program of those births;   From information available to managed care organizations participating in the TennCare program, a description of any initiatives by the managed care organizations to address health outcomes, costs, and other issues raised by births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age;   From data available to the department of health, and district and county health departments, the number of women with a substance abuse diagnosis involving opioid use who received family planning services and the number of those women who received long acting reversible contraceptives;   From data available to the department of children's services, the number of cases involving investigations that included an infant born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, the number of such infants in custody of the department, and the number of visits made by the department to families with an infant born with neonatal abstinence syndrome; and   From data available to the bureau of TennCare and the department of health, the number of cases in which the source of opiates in the mother of an infant born with neonatal abstinence syndrome can be reasonably associated with a substance prescribed to the mother.
TN Code § 68-1-806 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 8 - Perinatal and Neonatal Care|§ 68-1-806. Report on Quality and Outcomes in Perinatal Care

 On or before March 1 of each year the bureau of TennCare, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee and with the assistance of relevant state agencies, shall report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate concerning the following aspects of quality and outcomes in perinatal care for the last two (2) available fiscal years or calendar years, as may be available:   From information available to managed care organizations participating in the TennCare program, a description of any initiatives by the managed care organizations to improve key performance indicators of perinatal care outcomes such as maternal deaths, neonatal and fetal perinatal deaths, and pre-term births; and   From vital statistical data available to the bureau of TennCare and the department, a determination of the effectiveness of managed care organizations' initiatives toward improving perinatal care outcomes to residents in each health region.
TN Code § 68-1-901 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 9 - Medical Care Division|§ 68-1-901. Director of Division — Assistants and Employees

  The director of the medical care division shall be duly licensed in accordance with the laws of Tennessee to practice medicine in Tennessee, and shall have been engaged in the active practice of the director's profession for not less than five (5) years immediately preceding the director's appointment.   It is the duty of the commissioner of health, in conjunction with the director of the medical care division, and after consultation with the public health council [repealed] of the department of health, to appoint such assistants and employees as may be necessary to carry on the work of the medical care division, and all the assistants and employees shall hold office and receive compensation in accordance with provisions of title 4, chapter 4, governing the tenure and compensation of like employees in other departments.
TN Code § 68-1-902 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 9 - Medical Care Division|§ 68-1-902. Administration and Disbursement of Funds — Medical Care Fund Established

  The medical care division, subject to supervision by the department of health, as provided in this part, shall administer and expend all funds appropriated by the general assembly or made available by allotment by the federal government to the state, or from contributions from counties, cities or other local units of government, or from other sources, appropriated, allotted or contributed for medical care in accordance with any future act of the general assembly or the congress of the United States, having as its object the inauguration of a state or national program of medical care.   It is the duty of the state treasurer, whenever funds are available for carrying out this part, to set up in the state treasury a separate fund to be known as the “medical care fund,” and credit to the fund all appropriations, allotments or contributions, from whatever source specially designated and identified as funds for medical care or medical service, in accordance with the purpose specified in this part, and to preserve this separate fund for disbursement and expenditure solely and alone at the discretion of the commissioner of health, medical care division, in the manner provided by law.   This section shall not apply to funds allocated for medical care where federal laws or regulations require administration by another state administrative unit.
TN Code § 68-1-903 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 9 - Medical Care Division|§ 68-1-903. Application of Part

  The enforcement of this part shall in no way interfere with or supersede any existing law or cooperative federal, state or local program carried on under the Social Security Act, compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., or other federal acts, or any other state, federal or local law.   Nothing in this part shall apply to or affect medical care or medical service furnished wards of the state, who are inmates of any state institution, such as state prisons, mental health institutes, developmental centers, home for the blind, homes for the deaf, or juvenile correction institutions, but this part shall apply with respect to medical care or medical service furnished at public expense to any other person not an inmate of a state institution having an established and organized medical staff in regular attendance upon the inmates of the institution; it being the purpose of this part to coordinate, improve and better supervise the expenditure of public funds appropriated and designed for medical care and medical service to citizens of the state generally, who under future laws shall become entitled to receive medical care or medical service at public expense under the proposed national program of medical care; and is not intended to interfere with or interrupt the established and organized routine or special medical care and medical service rendered by the state to its wards regularly residing in any sort of state institution.
TN Code § 68-1-1001 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1001. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983.”
TN Code § 68-1-1002 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1002. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Cancer” means and includes, but is not limited to:  A large group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells;   Any condition of tumors having the properties of anaplasia, invasion, and metastasis;   A cellular tumor, the natural course of which is fatal;   Malignant neoplasm; and   In-situ cancer.     “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health;   “Department” means the department of health;   “Facility” means a health care facility in which diagnosis or treatment services are provided to patients with cancer, including, but not limited to, an ambulatory surgical treatment center (ASTC), a freestanding cancer treatment center, a radiation therapy center, a chemotherapy treatment center, a nursing home, an oncology or dermatology clinic, a laboratory, or any other facility that provides screening, detection, diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients with cancer;   “Health care practitioner” means a physician, surgeon, or other health care professional licensed under title 63 who is engaged in diagnosing and treating patients who have cancer;   “Hospital” means an institution as defined by § 68-11-201;   “In-situ cancer” means an abnormality of development and organization of cells. It is a condition of early cancer, without the invasion of neighboring tissue;   “Laboratory” means a facility where tests are performed identifying anatomical and cytological changes, and where specimens are interpreted and pathological diagnoses are made; and   “Medical, scientific and academic research communities” means those institutions that devote a substantial part of their activity to research and that have internal procedures providing for the collection, study and protection of data.
TN Code § 68-1-1004 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1004. Reports to Department — Rules and Regulations

  The department shall require the reporting of cancer and the submission of such specified additional information on reported cases as the commissioner deems necessary and appropriate.   The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations, including emergency rules, that are necessary for carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the department under this part. The promulgation of rules and regulations shall be in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
TN Code § 68-1-1006 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1006. Confidentiality of Data

   All data obtained from the reports required by this part are for the confidential use of the department and persons that the commissioner determines are necessary to carry out the intent of this part.   Information that could possibly identify individuals whose medical records have been used for collecting data may not be included in materials available to the public.     In order to carry out the legislative intent set out in § 68-1-1003, that the data obtained from the reports required by this part are also to be made available for valid research projects, the commissioner, with the advice of the advisory committee established by this chapter, is authorized to make available to members of the research community, pursuant to § 68-1-1003, specific and personally identifiable portions of the data collected; provided, that the following guidelines are observed:  The researcher sets out clearly the uses for which the data are desired;   The researcher clearly states the reasons for which confidential and personally identifiable portions of the data are necessary;   The researcher assures that the data received from the department will be maintained by the researcher with the same level of confidentiality as that maintained by the department; and   Upon completion of the research project, all data provided by the department and all copies of the data shall be destroyed.     Guidelines for such research applications shall be set out by departmental regulations. For the purposes of this part, those approved to obtain data for research shall not be considered agents of the commissioner.
TN Code § 68-1-1007 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1007. Liability for Release of Information — Compliance Not Violative of Confidentiality

 A hospital, laboratory, facility, or health care practitioner that reports information to the department or allows the commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative access to the medical records of cancer patients, as required by this part, shall not be held liable to any person for the release of the information to the department, nor shall the release of the information to the department be construed as a violation of any requirement of law or professional obligation to maintain the confidentiality of patient information.
TN Code § 68-1-1008 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1008. Tests and Supervision of Patients Prohibited

 No patient whose medical records are the subject of data collected in the reports required by this part shall be subjected to any medical examination or case supervision by the commissioner or the commissioner's agents for the purposes of this part.
TN Code § 68-1-1009 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1009. Violations — Penalties — Enforcement

  Any person receiving information containing the personal identity of any patient, who willfully divulges that identity, except as lawfully provided for in this chapter, commits a Class C misdemeanor.   It is the duty of the district attorney general to prosecute a suit, based on subsection (a), when requested by the commissioner, the county health officer or local board of health.
TN Code § 68-1-1010 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1010. Interstate Sharing of Information — Confidentiality

  In order to obtain complete information on Tennessee cancer patients who have been diagnosed or treated in other states, and in order to provide information to other states regarding their residents who have been diagnosed or treated for cancer in Tennessee, the commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative is authorized to enter into appropriate written agreements with other states that maintain statewide cancer registries, allowing the exchange of information on cancer patients.   Each state with which the commissioner agrees to exchange information must agree in writing to keep all patient-specific information confidential and to require any research personnel to whom the information is made available to keep it confidential.
TN Code § 68-1-1011 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 10 - Tennessee Cancer Reporting System Act of 1983|§ 68-1-1011. Annual Publishing of Reports

 The department shall annually compile and publish reports utilizing the data collected pursuant to this part and shall make these reports available to the governor, the general assembly, and the public.
TN Code § 68-1-1101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 11 - Sudden, Unexplained Child Death Act|§ 68-1-1101. Short Title — Legislative Findings — Definitions

  This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Sudden, Unexplained Child Death Act.”   The legislature finds and declares that:  Protection of the health and welfare of the children of this state is a goal of its people and the unexpected death of a child is an important public health concern that requires legislative action;   The parents, guardians, and other persons legally responsible for the care of a child who dies unexpectedly have a need to know the cause of death;   Collecting accurate data on the cause and manner of unexpected deaths will better enable the state to protect children from preventable deaths, and thus will help reduce the incidence of such deaths; and   Identifying persons responsible for abuse or neglect resulting in unexpected death will better enable the state to protect other children who may be under the care of the same persons, and thus will help reduce the incidence of such deaths.     As used in this part and in § 68-3-502, unless the context otherwise requires:  “Certified child death pathologist” means a pathologist who is board certified or board eligible in forensic pathology, and who has received training in, and agrees to follow, the autopsy protocol, policies and guidelines for child death investigation, as prescribed by the chief medical examiner for the state of Tennessee;   “Chief medical examiner” means the individual appointed pursuant to title 38, chapter 7; and   “Sudden infant death syndrome” means the sudden death of an infant under one (1) year of age that remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history.
TN Code § 68-1-1103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 11 - Sudden, Unexplained Child Death Act|§ 68-1-1103. Implementation

 In order to implement this part, the commissioner of health shall:   Promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, as may be necessary to obtain in proper form all information relating to the occurrence of a sudden, unexplained child death that is relevant and appropriate for the establishment of a reliable statistical index of the incidence, distribution and characteristics of cases of sudden, unexplained child death;   Promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act that establish minimum standards for conducting and completing an investigation, including an autopsy if deemed necessary, into the sudden, unexplained death of any child from birth to age seventeen (17). Initial rules promulgated pursuant to this subdivision (2) are authorized to be promulgated as emergency rules, pursuant to § 4-5-208. In promulgating the rules, the commissioner may rely, in whole or in part, on any nationally recognized standards regarding such investigations. Compliance with the rules shall make county governments eligible for reimbursement, to the extent authorized by those rules, of the costs of any autopsy deemed necessary;   Collect factual information from physicians, coroners, medical examiners, hospitals, and public health officials who have examined any child known or believed to have experienced sudden, unexplained death; provided, that no information shall be collected or solicited that reasonably could be expected to reveal the identity of the child;   Make information collected pursuant to subdivision (3) available to physicians, coroners, medical examiners, hospitals, public health officials, and educational and institutional organizations conducting research as to the causes and incidence of sudden, unexplained child death;   Cause appropriate counseling services to be established and maintained for families affected by the occurrence of sudden infant death syndrome;   Conduct educational programs to inform the general public of any research findings that may lead to the possible means of prevention, early identification, and treatment of sudden infant death syndrome; and   Develop educational literature to inform the general public of the risks and prevalence of sudden infant death syndrome and other infant sleep-related deaths that are sometimes mislabeled as sudden infant death syndrome, so that such information may lead to the possible means of prevention. The commissioner shall make the literature set out in this subdivision (7) available on the department of health's website.
TN Code § 68-1-1201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 1 - Department of Health|Part 12 - Public School Nurse Program|§ 68-1-1201. Creation

  There is created within the department of health the Tennessee public school nurse program.   The chief medical officer for the state, appointed pursuant to § 68-1-102(c), shall serve as executive director of the program.   In order to attain the highest level of school attendance, to promote excellence of academic performance and achievement, and to significantly reduce school dropout rates, the executive director, acting through the program, shall strive to improve and safeguard the physical and mental health and well-being of the student population of Tennessee's public schools.