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Safe Delivery
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1. When did this law take effect?
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2. In general, what does the law provide?
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3. Who is an Emergency Service Provider (ESP)?
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4. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) agencies are not mentioned in the law, but are just as likely to receive a newborn as a fire department.
What is their process?
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5. What written information is the ESP to provide the surrendering parent?
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6. What other information should the ESP share?
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7. Where does an ESP obtain a listing of counseling and medical service providers?
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8. How does the ESP know if the baby is a newborn?
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9. What if the person(s) surrendering the newborn leaves without providing any additional information?
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10. What if someone other than a parent surrenders the newborn?
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11. How will the non-surrendering parent know about the birth and the surrender of the baby?
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12. What if the newborn is found abandoned on the hospital, fire station or police station premises?
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13. What if a parent(s) returns to the hospital, fire station or police station following surrender and requests the return of the newborn?
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14. What Circuit Court, Family Division does the surrendering parent(s) file for custody if, after surrender, they wish to do so?
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15. I am an ESP, are there operating guidelines available for review?
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16. The law indicates that the newborn surrendered at a fire department or police station must be transferred to the hospital. How should this be done?
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17. How are fire and police personnel to transport a surrendered newborn to the hospital?
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18. Should the initial clinical assessment of the newborn, at the hospital, include a complete physical examination?
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19. What should be done if, during the hospital's clinical assessment, signs of abuse and/or neglect are present?
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20. Does the hospital have to obtain written consent to treat and/or transfer the newborn?
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21. Is it legally risky for ESP to accept these surrendered newborns?
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22. Is it legally risky for a parent(s) to surrender a newborn to an ESP?
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23. Will the surrendered newborn be eligible for medicaid?
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24. Does the new law authorize appropriations so the ESP, physicians and other caregivers are paid for services rendered pursuant to this law?
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25. Who applies for the birth registration for the newborn?
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26. Following an examination at a hospital and if the newborn is unharmed, what is the next step for the hospital?
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27. Where does the hospital obtain a listing of child placing agencies that handle adoptions?
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28. What are the responsibilities of a child placing agency that has taken a newborn under this law?
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29. What are the listings for the Michigan Missing Children's Information Clearinghouse and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children?
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30. The child placing agency assuming temporary protective custody of the newborn must supply the information necessary to establish a birth registration for the child except for newborns surrendered following a hospital birth. Is there a form available that can be used for this purpose?
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31. The child placing agency that has temporary protective custody of a newborn under the Safe Delivery of Newborns Act will be required to complete court forms. What forms have been developed and how does the agency access them?
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32. A child placing agency that has temporary custody of a newborn under the Safe
Delivery of Newborns Act is required to, within 28 days, make reasonable efforts
to identify and locate the non-surrendering parent. If the identity and address
of that parent is unknown, the agency is to provide notice by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the newborn was surrendered. How would such a publication read?
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33. Where can I get more information about the Safe Delivery law?
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34. When a child placing agency has temporary protective custody of a newborn, what is the process for notifying the Department of Human Services of a "Safe Delivery of Newborns" placement?
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