Perinatal Hepatitis B Education. 4.4.01 Require Perinatal Hepatitis B Case Manager to attend the biannual conference Required Activity
4.4.02 Conduct educational training for hospitals, prenatal care providers, pediatricians, birthing facilities, and other healthcare providers/facilities within the Grantee’s jurisdiction, to increase identification, timely reporting, and appropriate case management of pregnant woman with hepatitis and their infants and contacts.
4.4.03 Work with partners, as appropriate, to ensure coordination of activities aimed at preventing perinatal hepatitis B transmission Required Activity Standard (Universal)
Perinatal Hepatitis B Education. 4.4.01 Require Perinatal Hepatitis B Case Manager to attend the biannual conference
4.4.02 Conduct educational training for hospital and healthcare providers within the Grantee’s jurisdiction, to increase mandatory screening and reporting of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive women
4.4.03 Educate delivery hospitals to ensure they verify prenatal HBsAg test results of pregnant women on admission for delivery and test for HBsAg at delivery, regardless of prenatal test results, as required by law
4.4.04 Educate prenatal care providers to ensure they are screening pregnant women for HBsAg status during each pregnancy, implementing procedures for documenting HBsAg screening results in prenatal care records, and forwarding original laboratory results to the delivery facility
4.4.05 Ensure all labor and delivery facilities develop standing orders and policies to administer the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine and HBIG to at-risk infants within 12 hours of birth
4.4.06 Identify labor and delivery facilities that do not have standing orders and/or policies and educate providers to establish standing orders and policies to administer
4.4.07 Promote the TVFC Program to birthing hospitals and Suggested Activity encourage TVFC program enrollment
4.4.08 Provide training on the prevention of perinatal Required Activity hepatitis B through vaccination and PVST to pediatric care providers within the Grantee’s jurisdiction
4.4.09 Provide trainings to delivery hospitals on reporting Suggested Activity HBsAg-positive test results for women who have delivered at their facilities using the LHD Grantee- developed surveillance system
4.4.10 Work with partners, as appropriate, to ensure Standard coordination of activities aimed at preventing (Universal) perinatal hepatitis B transmission
