Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part V - Preventive Health Services › Subpart 13 - Family Planning › Chapter 35 - General Administration › Section V-3503 - Principles of Operation

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The aim of
				  Louisiana's Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and
				  Public Health Services, Family Planning Program is to operate and administer an
				  effective community program in family planning. This program shall provide
				  family planning information and services which promote the dignity and
				  integrity of the family, shall foster an environment which enhances the ability
				  of the family to develop the potential of each child, and shall improve
				  community health.
1. Services of the program
				  are available to individuals and families seeking voluntary fertility and
				  contraceptive services.
2. No
				  coercion or compulsion shall be employed to induce persons to use family
				  planning services.
3. Use of the
				  family planning services shall not be a prerequisite to the receipt of the
				  benefits of or participation in any other activity funded by parish, state or
				  federal tax revenue.
4. Services
				  shall be made available in such a manner as to protect the dignity of the
				  individual.
5. Family planning
				  records shall be classified as confidential medical information.
6. Advice and assistance shall be available
				  to each participant on a variety of family planning methods and techniques
				  sufficient to ensure freedom of choice.
7. Services shall be made available without
				  the impositions of any duration-of-residence or referral
				  requirements.
8. Abortions shall
				  not be provided as a method of family planning.
9. The program shall provide an opportunity
				  for participation by persons broadly representative of all significant elements
				  of the population to be served, and by others in the community
				  knowledgableabout such needs, in the development, implementation, and
				  evaluation of the projects and for the approval of educational and
				  informational materials.
10.
				  Medical services provided related to family planning shall include physician's
				  consultation, examination, prescription, and continuing supervision; laboratory
				  examination; contraceptive supplies; and necessary referrals to other medical
				  facilities when medically indicated.
11. The Family Planning Program also provides
				  social services related to family planning. These services include: counseling,
				  referral to and from other social and medical services agencies, and such
				  ancillary services as are necessary to facilitate clinic attendance.
12. Instruction in the effective usage of
				  contraceptive devices and practices shall be provided.
13. A broad range of medically approved
				  methods of family planning including natural family planning methods shall be
				  available.
14. Diagnostic and
				  referral services for infertility shall be available.
15. Referral arrangements with other
				  providers of health care services, with local health and welfare departments,
				  hospitals, and voluntary agencies, and health services projects support by
				  other federal programs shall be available.
16. Informational and educational programs
				  designed to achieve community understanding of the objectives of the program,
				  to inform the community of the availability of services, and to promote
				  continuing participation in the project by persons to whom family planning
				  services may be beneficial shall be provided.