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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0709\">709<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":242041,"object_type":"law","relational_id":73769,"identifier":"54.1-2912.5","token":"54.1\/III\/29\/2\/54.1-2912.5","url":"\/54.1-2912.5\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-2912.5\/","token":"54.1\/III\/29\/2\/54.1-2912.5","dublin_core":{"Title":"Standard of care pertaining to prenatal and postnatal and other depression; Communication of information","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-2912.5","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> shall annually <span class=\"dictionary\">issue<\/span> a communication to every practitioner licensed by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> who provides primary, maternity, obstetrical, or gynecological health care services reiterating the standard of care pertaining to prenatal or postnatal depression or other depression. Such communication shall encourage practitioners to screen every patient who is pregnant or who has been pregnant within the previous five years for prenatal or postnatal depression or other depression, as clinically appropriate and shall provide information to practitioners regarding the factors that may increase susceptibility of certain patients to prenatal or postnatal depression or other depression, including racial and economic disparities, and encourage providers to remain cognizant of the increased risk of depression for such patients.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSTANDARD OF CARE PERTAINING TO PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL AND OTHER DEPRESSION;\nCOMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION (\u00a7 54.1-2912.5)\n\nThe Board shall annually issue a communication to every practitioner licensed by\nthe Board who provides primary, maternity, obstetrical, or gynecological health\ncare services reiterating the standard of care pertaining to prenatal or\npostnatal depression or other depression. Such communication shall encourage\npractitioners to screen every patient who is pregnant or who has been pregnant\nwithin the previous five years for prenatal or postnatal depression or other\ndepression, as clinically appropriate and shall provide information to\npractitioners regarding the factors that may increase susceptibility of certain\npatients to prenatal or postnatal depression or other depression, including\nracial and economic disparities, and encourage providers to remain cognizant of\nthe increased risk of depression for such patients.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, c. 709.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}