Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 876
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/20/2017           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (Young)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 73 and 74
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 456.0495, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         456.0495 Reporting adverse incidents occurring in out-of
    8  hospital births.—
    9         (1) A midwife licensed under chapter 467 or health care
   10  provider, as applicable, shall report any adverse incident, as
   11  defined by department rule, occurring as a result of an
   12  attempted or completed, planned birthing center or out-of
   13  hospital birth, along with a medical summary of events, to the
   14  department within 15 days after the adverse incident occurs.
   15         (2) The department shall adopt rules establishing
   16  guidelines for reporting adverse incidents, including, but not
   17  limited to:
   18         (a) Maternal deaths that occur during delivery or within 42
   19  days after delivery.
   20         (b) Transfers of maternal patients to a hospital intensive
   21  care unit.
   22         (c) Maternal patients who experience hemorrhagic shock or
   23  who require a transfusion of more than 4 units of blood or blood
   24  products.
   25         (d) Fetal or infant deaths, including stillbirths,
   26  associated with obstetrical deliveries.
   27         (e) Transfers of infants to a neonatal intensive care unit
   28  due to a traumatic physical or neurological birth injury,
   29  including any degree of a brachial plexus injury.
   30         (f) Transfers of infants to a neonatal intensive care unit
   31  within the first 72 hours after birth if the infant remains in
   32  such unit for more than 72 hours.
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35  And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete lines 2 - 3
   37  and insert:
   38         An act relating to health care practitioners; creating
   39         s. 456.0495, F.S.; requiring licensed midwives and
   40         health care providers to report adverse incidents to
   41         the Department of Health within a certain period;
   42         requiring the department to adopt rules establishing
   43         guidelines for reporting specified adverse incidents;
   44         amending s. 456.076, F.S.; revising