                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STANDARD OF CARE PERTAINING TO PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL AND OTHER DEPRESSION;
COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION (§ 54.1-2912.5)

The Board shall annually issue a communication to every practitioner licensed by
the Board 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.

HISTORY: 2020, c. 709.