LAC 48:I.9391. Registers and Reports

A. The hospital shall have the following registers and reports, where applicable, which may be computer generated: 1. patients' register; 2. emergency room register; 3. birth register; 4. delivery room register; 5. operating room register; 6. death register; 7. analysis of hospital service via the quality assessment and improvement program, based on patient statistics; and 8. daily census report of admissions, births, discharges and deaths. B. All hospitals licensed by the Department of Health that provide emergency treatment, due to complications following an abortion as defined in R.S. 40:1061.9 shall: 1. ensure proper electronic coding and tracking of post-abortion complications; 2. submit to the department, on a form provided by the department, a report on patients who present for post-abortion complication emergency treatment. The report shall: a. be confidential; b. be exempt from disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Law, R.S. 44:1 et seq.; c. not contain the name or address of the patient; d. include the following: i. the date of the abortion; ii. the name and address of the facility where the abortion was performed or induced; iii. the nature of the abortion complication diagnosed or treated; iv. the name and address of the facility where the post-abortion care was performed; and 3. ensure that a staff member of the hospital attempts to obtain the information required in this section from any patient prior to the patient’s discharge from the hospital.