As used in this subchapter: (1) “Freestanding birthing center” means any facility, institution, or place, which is not an ambulatory surgical center or a hospital or in a hospital, organized to provide family-centered maternity care for women and childbearing families in which births are planned to occur in a homelike atmosphere away from the mothers’ […]
(a) A freestanding birthing center shall have a qualified medical director, and deliveries shall be performed by a qualified physician or by a certified nurse midwife in accordance with an arrangement with a physician as required by § 17-87-101 et seq. (b) A mother and her infant shall be dismissed from a freestanding birthing center […]
(a) The Department of Health shall establish and enforce rules: (1) Setting minimum standards for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a freestanding birthing center; and (2) Setting qualifications for medical directors of freestanding birthing centers and for physicians who will perform deliveries in freestanding birthing centers. (b) A freestanding birthing center shall meet life […]
The Department of Health may levy and collect a fee for the issuance of an annual license to a freestanding birthing center. The license fee for a freestanding birthing center shall be an annual fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit the lawful practice of lay midwifery in any location under the Licensed Lay Midwife Act, § 17-85-101 et seq.
