New Mexico Register / Volume XXX, Issue
12 / June 25, 2019
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The New Mexico Department of Health will
hold a public hearing on the adoption a new rule, 7.30.5 NMAC, “Shaken Baby
Syndrome Prevention”. The hearing will
be held on August 20, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in the auditorium of the Harold Runnels
Building, located at 1190 St. Francis Drive in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The
objective of the Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention rule is to establish
requirements for hospitals and freestanding birth centers to provide training
and education to prevent shaken baby syndrome to every parent of every newborn
before discharge.
The legal authority authorizing the
proposed rule and the adoption of the rule by the Department is at Subsection E
of Section 9-7-6 and Section 24-1-13.2, NMSA 1978.
A free copy of the full text of the
proposed rule can be obtained from the Department’s website at https://nmhealth.org/publication/regulation/.
This hearing will be conducted to receive
public comment regarding the proposed adoption of the new rule 7.30.5
NMAC. Any interested member of the
public may attend the hearing and offer public comments on the proposed new
rule during the hearing. Written public
comments may be submitted prior to the date of the hearing. Please submit any written comments regarding
the proposed rule to the attention of:
Toby Rosenblatt
Injury and Behavioral Epidemiology Bureau
Epidemiology and Response Division
New Mexico Department of Health
1190 St. Francis Drive
Sana Fe, NM 87505
Toby.Rosenblatt@state.nm.us
All
written comments must be received by 5pm on August 10, 2019. All
written comments will be published on the agency website at https://nmhealth.org/publication/regulation/ within 3 days of receipt,
and will be available at the New Mexico Department of Health Office of General
Counsel for public inspection.
If you are an individual with a disability
who is in need of special assistance or accommodations to attend or participate
in the hearing, please contact Franchesca Martinez by telephone at (505)
827-2997. The Department requests at
least ten (10) days advance notice to provide requested special accommodations.