The Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program promotes the delivery of early, continuous and quality perinatal services to pregnant and postpartum women and their infants by public and private obstetrical providers and coordinated by a Public Health Nurse.
SIDS is the sudden unexplained death of an infant under one year of age. We still do not know what causes SIDS. To diagnose a death as SIDS, three things must happen. The infant must undergo a complete autopsy, a thorough death scene investigation will be done, and a review of the clinical history of the infant will be completed.
In 2018, recognizing an alarming statewide gap in Black infant mortality, the state Legislature passed the Budget Act of 2018 which included the establishment of the California Perinatal Equity Initiative (PEI) within the Department of Public Health.
Please use our contact to email the Office of Vital Records regarding registering a birth or death or requesting certified copies of a birth or death that occurred this year or last year. Someone will respond to your email within 1 business day. We also answer questions about acquiring a burial permit.
The Riverside County Local Registration District (LRD) offers emergency filing to accommodate religious and cultural beliefs that require interment within 48 hours of death. To be eligible the disposition must be scheduled within 48 hours of death.
Timely identification and treatment of maternal syphilis can prevent congenital syphilis; however, the number of congenital syphilis cases in the United States increased 261% during 2013–2018.
This new sexual history-taking tool includes a 6th P to help providers talk with patients about sexual pleasure, problems, and pride.
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The entity listed at the above address is currently certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) program with a Certificate of Compliance and continues to meet all the appropriate regulatory requirements until a survey is completed.