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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73769</law_id><section_number>54.1-2912.5</section_number><catch_line>Standard of care pertaining to prenatal and postnatal and other depression; Communication of information</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Board of Medicine</unit></structure><text>
						<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></text><history>2020, c. 709.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
