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Safely Surrendered Baby Law
The “Safely Surrendered Baby Law” is intended to:
- Provide health and safety for newborn children defined under the law
- Protect a parent or any adult from prosecution when surrendering custody of a child, three days old or younger, to a public or private hospital or any other location designated by the County Board of Supervisors
- Ensure that health facilities that accept surrendered newborns will be reimbursed for providing health screening assessment and care until the baby is returned to a responsible relative/caretaker or is established in the Foster Care system.
- Any infant(s) protected under the Safely Surrendered Baby Law must be treated as an immediate need applicant.
Foster Care Eligibility Staff will process all MC applications for the safely surrendered newborns. The detailed processing instructions are in the Foster Care Handbook.
Infants under the Safely Surrendered Baby law are granted MC Aid Code 2A.
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Provisional Postpartum Care Extension