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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-348" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Hospitals and Related Institutions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each hospital shall offer to each adult female inpatient of the hospital a Papanicolaou smear for detection of cervical cancer unless:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The attending physician orders otherwise; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The patient has had the examination within the preceding year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A patient may refuse the examination.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each hospital shall offer mammography educational materials to each female patient when medically appropriate for the patient.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department, in collaboration with the Maryland Hospital Association, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and appropriate advocacy groups, shall select and approve, or develop and print, and update as necessary, mammography educational materials for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
