New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › Chapter 18 - NEW JERSEY SAFE HAVEN INFANT PROTECTION ACT PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS › Subchapter 1 - PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS › Section 3A:18-1.9 - Police officers, firefighters, emergency medical responders, and hospital staff gather information, record in police, fire department, or ambulance incident report and infant's medical chart

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) To assist the
				Division of Child Protection and Permanency in planning for the care of the safe
				haven infant, the police, firefighter, emergency medical responder, or hospital
				staff shall gather and record identifying and non-identifying information about the
				infant, if voluntarily provided by the person who brought the infant to, and left
				the infant at, the police station, fire department, ambulance, or hospital emergency
				department.
(b) In accordance with
N.J.A.C. 3A:18-1.6(a)
, before gathering or recording any information, the police officer,
				firefighter, emergency medical responder, or hospital employee shall advise the
				person who brought the infant to the police station, fire department, ambulance, or
				hospital emergency department of his or her right to remain anonymous pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 30:4C-15
.7.g.
(c) If the parent or
				other person who brought the infant to the police station, fire department, or
				ambulance demonstrates a willingness to provide background or health information, a
				police officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder shall record the
				information, to the extent such information is voluntarily provided, in the police,
				fire department, or ambulance incident report and shall share the information with a
				hospital employee. A hospital employee shall record background or health information
				in the infant's medical chart, if provided by the police officer, firefighter,
				emergency medical responder, or when provided by the parent or other person who
				brought an infant directly to the hospital, to the extent such information is
				voluntarily provided. The information to record includes, but is not limited to, the
				following:
1. Information about the infant's
				present health, including whether the infant has any physical or developmental
				disabilities, problems or limitations;
2. Information about the infant's ethnicity, race
				and religion of origin;
3. Information
				about the composition of the infant's birth family, including but not limited to the
				age of each parent and whether the infant has any siblings;
4. Whether the infant was given a name, and, if
				so, what name;
5. Information about the
				infant's date and place of birth;
6.
				Information about the infant's pre-natal history and care, whether the infant was
				full term, and the infant's birth weight;
7. Information about the physical and mental
				health of each parent, and whether either parent had any hospitalizations;
8. Whether either parent is human immunodeficiency
				virus (HIV) positive, has acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), or has any
				other serious medical problems or conditions;
9. Whether the birth mother used drugs, took
				medication or consumed alcohol while pregnant;
10. Information about why the parent or parents
				want to permanently give up the infant; and
11. Whether the birth father and extended family
				members are aware of the birth of the infant and the mother's plan to give up the
				infant.