Section 123510 Of Article 3. Community-based Perinatal System From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 106. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.
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. The program objectives of the community-based comprehensive
perinatal health care system shall be the following:
(a) To ensure continuing availability and accessibility to early
prenatal care within the areas presently served and to develop a
community-based comprehensive perinatal system in other areas of the
state that are medically underserved or have demonstrated need.
(b) To assure the appropriate level of maternal, newborn and
pediatric care services necessary to provide the healthiest outcome
for mother and infant.
(c) To ensure postpartum, family planning, and followup care
through the first year of life, and referral to an ongoing primary
health care provider.
(d) To include support and ancillary services such as nutrition,
health education, public health nursing, and social work that have
been demonstrated to decrease maternal, perinatal, and infant
mortality and morbidity, as components of comprehensive perinatal
care.
(e) To ensure that care shall be available regardless of the
patient's financial situation.
(f) To ensure, to the extent possible, that the same quality of
care shall be available to all pregnant women.
(g) To promote program flexibility by recognizing the needs within
an area and providing for unique programs to meet those needs.
(h) To emphasize preventive health care as a major component of
any perinatal program, and to support outreach programs directed at
low-income pregnant women that will encourage early entry into, and
appropriate utilization of, the perinatal health care system.