NAC442.030. Taking of blood sample required.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in NAC 442.035, every hospital or obstetric center in which an infant is born must take an appropriate blood sample from the infant before he or she is discharged from the hospital or obstetric center. The sample must be taken not later than the seventh day of the infant’s life regardless of the feeding status of the infant. If an infant is discharged before he or she is 48 hours of age, the hospital or obstetric center must take an appropriate blood sample as close as possible to the time of the infant’s discharge from the hospital or obstetric center.

     2. The sample must be placed in a kit supplied by the Division and must be mailed to the address indicated on the kit within 24 hours after the sample is taken.

     3. If an infant is not born in a hospital or obstetric center, the person who is legally responsible for registering the birth of the child must have a physician, hospital, public health nurse or the State Public Health Laboratory take the first blood sample between the 3rd and 7th day and the second blood sample between the 15th and 56th day of the infant’s life.

     [Bd. of Health, Metabolic Error Screening of Newborns Reg. §§ 2.1-2.3, eff. 12-27-77]—(NAC A 10-23-87; 10-10-90)