La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § V-3503

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section V-3503 - Principles of Operation

A. The aim of Louisiana's Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and Public Health Services, Family Planning Program is to operate and administer an effective community program in family planning. This program shall provide family planning information and services which promote the dignity and integrity of the family, shall foster an environment which enhances the ability of the family to develop the potential of each child, and shall improve community health.

1. Services of the program are available to individuals and families seeking voluntary fertility and contraceptive services.

2. No coercion or compulsion shall be employed to induce persons to use family planning services.

3. Use of the family planning services shall not be a prerequisite to the receipt of the benefits of or participation in any other activity funded by parish, state or federal tax revenue.

4. Services shall be made available in such a manner as to protect the dignity of the individual.

5. Family planning records shall be classified as confidential medical information.

6. Advice and assistance shall be available to each participant on a variety of family planning methods and techniques sufficient to ensure freedom of choice.

7. Services shall be made available without the impositions of any duration-of-residence or referral requirements.

8. Abortions shall not be provided as a method of family planning.

9. The program shall provide an opportunity for participation by persons broadly representative of all significant elements of the population to be served, and by others in the community knowledgableabout such needs, in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the projects and for the approval of educational and informational materials.

10. Medical services provided related to family planning shall include physician's consultation, examination, prescription, and continuing supervision; laboratory examination; contraceptive supplies; and necessary referrals to other medical facilities when medically indicated.

11. The Family Planning Program also provides social services related to family planning. These services include: counseling, referral to and from other social and medical services agencies, and such ancillary services as are necessary to facilitate clinic attendance.

12. Instruction in the effective usage of contraceptive devices and practices shall be provided.

13. A broad range of medically approved methods of family planning including natural family planning methods shall be available.

14. Diagnostic and referral services for infertility shall be available.

15. Referral arrangements with other providers of health care services, with local health and welfare departments, hospitals, and voluntary agencies, and health services projects support by other federal programs shall be available.

16. Informational and educational programs designed to achieve community understanding of the objectives of the program, to inform the community of the availability of services, and to promote continuing participation in the project by persons to whom family planning services may be beneficial shall be provided.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § V-3503

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and Public Health Services, LR 13:246 (April 1987).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with 42 USC 300; 42 CFR, Subpart A, Part 59.