32.1-66 - Commissioner to notify physicians; reports to Commissioner. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-66. Commissioner to notify physicians; reports to Commissioner.

Whenever a newborn screening test result indicates suspicion of any conditionpursuant to § 32.1-65, the Commissioner shall notify forthwith the attendingphysician and shall perform or provide for additional testing required toconfirm or disprove the diagnosis. All physicians, certified nurse midwives,public health nurses, or any nurse receiving such test result, andadministrators of hospitals in the Commonwealth, shall report the discoveryof all cases of any condition for which newborn screening is conductedpursuant to § 32.1-65 to the Commissioner for infants and children up to twoyears of age.

(Code 1950, § 32-112.5; 1966, c. 179; 1979, c. 711; 1986, c. 172; 1988, c.97; 2005, cc. 717, 721.)