35 Pa. Stat. § 6530.5

Current through Pa Acts 2024-35, 2024-56
Section 6530.5 - Informational publications

The department shall, on the department's Internet website, make available to health care providers printable publications that include the following information:

(1) An explanation of the differences between public and private umbilical cord blood banking.
(2) The medical processes involved in the collection of umbilical cord blood.
(3) The medical risks to a mother and her newborn child of umbilical cord blood collection.
(4) The current and potential future medical uses and benefits of umbilical cord blood collection to a mother, her newborn child and her biological family.
(5) The current and potential future medical uses and benefits of umbilical cord blood collection to persons who are not biologically related to a mother or her newborn child.
(6) Any costs that may be incurred by a pregnant woman who chooses to make an umbilical cord blood donation.
(7) The average costs of public and private umbilical cord blood banking.
(8) Options for ownership and future use of the donated material.
(9) The availability in this Commonwealth of umbilical cord blood donations.

35 P.S. § 6530.5

2008, April 3, P.L. 54, No. 12, §5, effective in 60 days [ 6/2/2008].