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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="20-1305" title_number="20" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Provisions" subtitle_number="13" subtitle_name="Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Health Care Professionals">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Perinatal care” means the provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Perinatal care facility” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A hospital, as defined in § 19–301 of this article, that provides perinatal care; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A freestanding birthing center, as defined in § 19–3B–01 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or before January 1, 2021, the Program shall establish an evidence–based implicit bias training program for all health care professionals involved in the perinatal care of patients in a perinatal care facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Program shall establish the implicit bias program required under paragraph (1) of this subsection using best practices in implicit bias training.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The implicit bias program required under paragraph (1) of this subsection may include best practices used in other states.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On or before January 1, 2022, and once every 2 years thereafter or more frequently, as determined by the perinatal care facility, a health care professional who is an employee of, and involved in the perinatal care of patients at, a perinatal care facility shall complete the training established under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Program shall offer the training established under subsection (b) of this section to any health care professional involved in perinatal care of patients at a perinatal care facility who is not required to complete the training under subsection (c) of this section because the health care professional is not an employee of a perinatal care facility.</text>
  </level>
</section>
