Planned Home Births
The WSMA recommends the following safeguards for planned home births: 1)
only low risk patients should be approved for planned home births; and, 2)
any practitioner who wishes to provide this service must agree to submit
data to the department for each birth (possibly as a condition of
reimbursement) to allow the performance of appropriate peer review of
procedures and outcomes, similar to those practices which occur in a
hospital or birth center environment. (EC Rpt D, A-98) (Reaffirmed A-23)
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Abbreviations for House of Delegates report origination:
EC – Executive Committee; BT – Board of Trustees; CPA – Council on
Professional Affairs; JC – Judicial Council; CHS – Community and Health
Services