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VA Code § 32.1-56 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-56. Information to be provided patients

It shall be the duty of every physician or other person who examines or treats a person having a venereal disease to provide such person with information about the disease, including, as a minimum, the nature of the disease, methods of treatment, measures used in preventing the spread of such disease, and the necessity of tests to ensure that a cure has been accomplished.Code 1950, § 32-92; 1979, c. 711.
VA Code § 32.1-57 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-57. Examination, testing and treatment; failure to comply with order of examination

A. A local health director may require any person suspected of being infected with any venereal disease to submit to examination, testing and treatment if necessary.B. If any such person refuses to submit to an examination, testing or treatment or to continue treatment until found to be cured by proper test, the local health director may apply to the appropriate circuit court for an order compelling such examination, testing or treatment. Any person willfully failing to comply with such order shall be punishable as for contempt of court.C. If a person infected with venereal disease is required by the local health director to receive treatment therefor and such person receives such treatment from the local health department, no fee shall be charged.Code 1950, § 32-93; 1979, c. 711; 1988, c. 399.
VA Code § 32.1-58 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-58. Persons convicted of certain crimes to be examined, tested and treated

Each person convicted of a violation of § 18.2-346, 18.2-346.01, or 18.2-361 shall be examined and tested for venereal disease and treated if necessary.Code 1950, § 32-94; 1979, c. 711; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 188.
VA Code § 32.1-59 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-59. Examination and treatment in certain institutions

Every person admitted to any state correctional institution and every person admitted to a state hospital or training center operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services shall be examined and tested for venereal disease. If the person is found to be infected with a venereal disease, the person in charge of such institution or state hospital or training center shall promptly provide treatment and shall report such case as provided in § 32.1-37.Code 1950, § 32-104; 1979, c. 711; 2012, cc. 476, 507.
VA Code § 32.1-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-60. Prenatal tests required

Every physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner attending a pregnant woman during gestation shall examine and test such woman for such venereal diseases as the Board may designate within 15 days after beginning such attendance. Every other person permitted by law to attend upon pregnant women but not permitted by law to make such examinations and tests, shall cause such examinations and tests to be made by a licensed physician, licensed nurse practitioner, or clinic. Serological tests required by this section may be performed by the Department of General Services, Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS).Code 1950, § 32-104.1; 1950, p. 108; 1979, c. 711; 1980, c. 184; 1984, c. 140; 1993, c. 364; 2004, c. 855; 2006, c. 396.
VA Code § 32.1-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-61. Definition

As used in this article, "ophthalmia neonatorum" means any inflammation, swelling or unusual redness in one or both eyes of any infant, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eye or eyes of such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any, occurring at any time within two weeks after the birth of such infant.Code 1950, § 32-105; 1979, c. 711.
VA Code § 32.1-62 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-62. Procedure upon infant's birth

In order to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum, the physician, nurse or midwife in charge of the delivery of a baby or, if none, the first attending physician shall, immediately after the baby's birth, perform upon such baby the procedure prescribed by the Board. Such action shall be duly recorded in the medical record of the baby.Code 1950, § 32-107; 1979, c. 711.
VA Code § 32.1-63 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-63. Duty of physician, midwife or nurse noting ophthalmia neonatorum

It shall be the duty of any physician, midwife or nurse who notes ophthalmia neonatorum within two weeks after the birth of an infant to perform or cause to be performed such tests as are necessary to ascertain the cause of such inflammation and to institute or have instituted appropriate therapy. When the cause of such inflammation is ascertained to be gonococcus, such physician, nurse or midwife shall report the infection to the local health director or the Commissioner as provided in § 32.1-36.Code 1950, § 32-106; 1979, c. 711.
VA Code § 32.1-64 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-64. Duty of Board to provide for treatment

The Board shall provide for the gratuitous distribution of the necessary treatment approved by it for ophthalmia neonatorum, together with proper directions for the use and administration thereof, to all physicians, midwives and hospitals requesting it. The Board shall provide free of charge in medically indigent cases the necessary treatment for ophthalmia neonatorum when the cause is ascertained to be gonococcus.Code 1950, § 32-109; 1979, c. 711.
VA Code § 32.1-64.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-64.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; Commissioner required to contact parents, physicians, and relevant local early intervention program

The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is submitted pursuant to § 32.1-64.1 shall keep such information confidential. No publication of research or statistical data shall be made that identifies any infant with hearing loss or risk of hearing loss. The Commissioner shall contact the parents of children identified with hearing loss or at risk of hearing loss, their physicians, and the relevant local early intervention program to provide them with information about available public and private health care and educational resources, including any hearing loss clinics.The Commissioner may authorize linkages between secure electronic data systems maintained by the Department of Health containing newborn hearing screening records and the Virginia Immunization Information System (VIIS) operated pursuant to § 32.1-46.01. The Commissioner may authorize health care providers authorized to view VIIS to view newborn hearing screening records of individuals to whom the providers are providing health care services. The records may be made available until the child reaches seven years of age, after which the records shall not be made available through a linkage to VIIS. Such linkages shall be subject to all applicable state and federal privacy laws and regulations.1986, c. 419; 1998, cc. 505, 506, 513; 2012, c. 147; 2019, c. 288.
VA Code § 32.1-65 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-65. Certain newborn screening required

In order to prevent intellectual disability and permanent disability or death, every infant who is born in the Commonwealth shall be subjected to screening tests for various disorders consistent with, but not necessarily identical to, the uniform condition panel recommended by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children.Any infant whose parent or guardian objects thereto on the grounds that such tests conflict with his religious practices or tenets shall not be required to receive such screening tests.The physician or certified nurse midwife in charge of the infant's care after delivery shall cause such tests to be performed. The screening tests shall be performed by the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services or any other laboratory the Department of Health has contracted with to provide such service. Screening tests for time-critical disorders identified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children shall be performed seven days a week.The program for screening infants for sickle cell diseases shall be conducted in addition to the programs provided for in Article 8 (§ 32.1-68 et seq.).Code 1950, §§ 32-112.1, 32-112.9; 1966, c. 179; 1979, c. 711; 1983, c. 582; 1986, c. 172; 1988, c. 97; 1992, cc. 747, 873; 2001, c. 255; 2002, c. 440; 2004, c. 760; 2005, cc. 717, 721; 2012, cc. 147, 476, 507; 2018, c. 531.
VA Code § 32.1-65.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-65.1. Critical congenital heart defect screening test required

In order to prevent disability or death, the Board shall require every hospital in the Commonwealth having a newborn nursery to perform a critical congenital heart defect screening test using pulse oximetry or other Board-approved screening test that is based on standards set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics on every newborn in its care when such infant is at least 24 hours old but no more than 48 hours old or, in cases in which the infant is discharged from the hospital prior to reaching 24 hours of age, prior to discharging the infant.Any infant whose parent or guardian objects thereto on the grounds that such tests conflict with his religious practices or tenets shall not be required to receive such screening tests.The physician or health care provider in charge of the infant's care after delivery shall cause such tests to be performed.2014, cc. 4, 175.
VA Code § 32.1-66 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-66. Commissioner to notify physicians; reports to Commissioner

Whenever a newborn screening test result indicates suspicion of any condition pursuant to § 32.1-65, the Commissioner shall notify forthwith the attending physician and shall perform or provide for additional testing required to confirm or disprove the diagnosis. All physicians, certified nurse midwives, public health nurses, or any nurse receiving such test result, and administrators of hospitals in the Commonwealth, shall report the discovery of all cases of any condition for which newborn screening is conducted pursuant to § 32.1-65 to the Commissioner for infants and children up to two years of age.Code 1950, § 32-112.5; 1966, c. 179; 1979, c. 711; 1986, c. 172; 1988, c. 97; 2005, cc. 717, 721.
VA Code § 32.1-67 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-67. Duty of Board for follow-up and referral protocols; regulations

Infants identified with any condition for which newborn screening is conducted pursuant to § 32.1-65 or 32.1-65.1 shall be eligible for the services of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Program administered by the Department of Health. The Board of Health shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to implement Newborn Screening Services and the Children with Special Health Care Needs Program. The Board's regulations shall include, but not be limited to, a list of newborn screening tests conducted pursuant to §§ 32.1-65 and 32.1-65.1, notification processes conducted pursuant to § 32.1-66, follow-up procedures, appropriate referral processes, and services available for infants and children who have a heritable disorder or genetic disease identified through Newborn Screening Services.Code 1950, § 32-112.6; 1966, c. 179; 1979, c. 711; 1980, c. 470; 1981, c. 164; 1986, c. 172; 1988, c. 97; 2000, c. 916; 2005, cc. 717, 721; 2012, c. 147; 2014, cc. 4, 175.
VA Code § 32.1-67.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-67.1. Confidentiality of records; prohibition of discrimination

The results of the newborn screening services conducted pursuant to this article may be used for research and collective statistical purposes. No publication of research or statistical data shall be made that identifies any infant having a heritable or genetic disorder.The Commissioner may authorize linkages between secure electronic data systems maintained by the Department of Health containing newborn screening records and the Virginia Immunization Information System (VIIS) operated pursuant to § 32.1-46.01. The Commissioner may authorize health care providers authorized to view VIIS to view the newborn screening records of individuals to whom the providers are providing health care services. The records may be made available until the child reaches seven years of age, after which the records shall not be made available through a linkage to VIIS. Such linkages shall be subject to all applicable state and federal privacy laws and regulations.1988, c. 97; 2005, cc. 717, 721; 2012, c. 147.
VA Code § 32.1-68 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-68. Commissioner to establish screening and treatment program; review by Board; program to include education and post-screening counseling; laboratory tests

A. The Commissioner, in cooperation with local health directors, shall establish a voluntary program for the screening of adults and children for the disease of sickle cell anemia or the sickle cell trait and for such other genetically related diseases and genetic traits and inborn errors of metabolism as the Board may deem necessary.B. The Board shall review the program from time to time to determine the appropriate age and the method of screening for such conditions or traits in the light of technological changes.C. The screening program shall include provisions for education concerning the nature and treatment of sickle cell anemia, other genetically related diseases and inborn errors of metabolism and a post-screening counseling program for the treatment of any person determined to have such a condition.D. The program may include the provision of laboratory testing.E. The Board shall adopt regulations to implement an adult and pediatric comprehensive sickle cell clinic network.Code 1950, §§ 32-112.21, 32-112.22; 1973, c. 212; 1979, c. 711; 2020, c. 503.
VA Code § 32.1-69 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-69. Records confidential; disclosure of results of screening

The results of any particular screening program shall be sent to the physician of the person tested, if known, and either to the parents when the person screened is under the age of eighteen or to the person if he is eighteen years of age or over. The results of a screening program may be used for research and collective statistical purposes. Except as hereinabove provided, all records maintained as part of any screening program shall be strictly confidential and shall be accessible only to the Board, the Commissioner or his agents or to the local health director who is conducting the screening program except by explicit permission of the person who has been screened if such person is eighteen years of age or over or of such person's parent or guardian if he is under age eighteen.Code 1950, § 32-112.23; 1973, c. 212; 1979, c. 711.
VA Code § 32.1-69.1:1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-69.1:1. Dissemination of information regarding birth defects

The Commissioner shall develop a publication concerning the role of folic acid in the prevention of birth defects for distribution to physicians, hospitals and other medical facilities, and local health departments for use with patients. The publication shall be distributed by the Virginia Department of Health to the offices of the clerks of the circuit courts and made available to applicants for marriage licenses.1999, c. 582; 2012, c. 802.
VA Code § 32.1-69.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-69.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; authority of Commissioner to contact parents and physicians

The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is submitted pursuant to § 32.1-69.1 shall keep such information confidential. For the purpose of only complying with the provisions of § 32.1-69.1, hospitals required to report stillbirths, as defined in § 32.1-69.1, and birth defects to the Virginia Congenital Anomalies Reporting and Education System and provide patient follow-up may view personally identifiable information in the system as approved by the Commissioner and upon receipt by the Commissioner of sworn affirmation from each such person that the confidentiality of the information will be preserved. No publication of information shall be made except in the form of statistical or other studies which do not identify individuals. However, the Commissioner may contact the parents of children identified as having birth defects and their physicians to collect relevant data and to provide them with information about available public and private health care resources.1985, c. 273; 2006, cc. 699, 906; 2015, c. 661.
VA Code § 32.1-69.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-69.4. Publication of information regarding cord blood education

In addition to the requirements of § 32.1-69.3, the Commissioner shall make publicly available, by posting on the public website of the Department of Health, resources relating to umbilical cord blood that have been developed by the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation and include the following information:1. An explanation of the potential value and uses of umbilical cord blood, including cord blood cells and stem cells, for individuals who are, as well as individuals who are not, biologically related to a mother or her newborn child.2. An explanation of the differences between using one's own cord blood cells and using related or unrelated cord blood stem cells in the treatment of disease.3. An explanation of the differences between public and private umbilical cord blood banking.4. The options available to a mother relating to stem cells that are contained in the umbilical cord blood after the delivery of her newborn, including (i) donating the stem cells to a public umbilical cord blood bank where facilities are available; (ii) storing the stem cells in a private family umbilical cord blood bank for use by immediate and extended family members; (iii) storing the stem cells for immediate or extended family members through a family or sibling donor banking program that provides free collection, processing, and storage where there is an existing medical need; and (iv) discarding the stem cells.5. The medical processes involved in the collection of cord blood.6. Medical or family history criteria that can impact a family's consideration of umbilical cord blood banking, including the likelihood of using a baby's cord blood to serve as a match for a family member who has a medical condition.7. Options for ownership and future use of donated umbilical cord blood.8. The average cost of public and private umbilical cord blood banking.9. The availability of public and private cord blood banks to Virginians, including (i) a list of public cord blood banks and the hospitals served by such banks; (ii) a list of private cord blood banks that are available; and (iii) the availability of free family banking and sibling donor programs where there is an existing medical need by a family member.10. An explanation of which racial and ethnic groups are in particular need of publicly donated cord blood samples based upon medical data developed by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.2010, c. 69.
VA Code § 32.1-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-70. Information from hospitals, clinics, certain laboratories and physicians supplied to Commissioner; statewide cancer registry

A. Each hospital, clinic and independent pathology laboratory shall make available to the Commissioner or his agents information on patients having malignant tumors or cancers. A physician shall report information on patients having cancers unless he has determined that a hospital, clinic or in-state pathology laboratory has reported the information. This reporting requirement shall not apply to basal and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. Such information shall include the name, address, sex, race, diagnosis and any other pertinent identifying information regarding each such patient and shall include information regarding possible exposure to Agent Orange or other defoliants through their development, testing or use or through service in the Vietnam War. Each hospital, clinic, independent pathology laboratory, or physician shall provide other available clinical information as defined by the Board of Health.B. From such information the Commissioner shall establish and maintain a statewide cancer registry. The purpose of the statewide cancer registry shall include but not be limited to:1. Determining means of improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.2. Determining the need for and means of providing better long-term, follow-up care of cancer patients.3. Conducting epidemiological analyses of the incidence, prevalence, survival, and risk factors associated with the occurrence of cancer in Virginia.4. Collecting data to evaluate the possible carcinogenic effects of environmental hazards including exposure to dioxin and the defoliant, Agent Orange.5. Collecting data to evaluate potential links between exposure to fire incidents and cancer incidence.6. Improving rehabilitative programs for cancer patients.7. Assisting in the training of hospital personnel.8. Determining other needs of cancer patients and health personnel.Code 1950, § 32-388; 1950, p. 187; 1978, c. 792; 1979, c. 711; 1988, cc. 447, 459, 843; 1998, c. 315; 2018, c. 459.
VA Code § 32.1-70.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control|§ 32.1-70.2. Collection of cancer case information by the Commissioner

A. Using such funds as may be appropriated therefor, the Commissioner or his designee may perform on-site data collection of the records of patients having malignant tumors or cancers at those consenting hospitals, clinics, independent pathology laboratories and physician offices required to report information of such patients pursuant to the reporting requirements of § 32.1-70, in order to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the statewide cancer registry.B. The selection criteria for determining which consenting hospitals, clinics, independent pathology laboratories and physician offices may be subject to on-site data collection under the provisions of this section shall include, but shall not be limited to: (i) expected annual number of cancer case reports, (ii) historical completeness and accuracy of reporting rates, and (iii) whether the facility maintains its own cancer registry.C. The Board of Health shall promulgate regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section.2000, cc. 74, 139.