Add a Hearing Screening Comment If Baby Dies
The Oregon Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI) is dedicated to identifying infants and young children in Oregon who are deaf or hard of hearing as early as possible and making sure they receive services to support language development.
The EHDI program may need to send out a letter to parents to follow up with them about an infant’s hearing screening. To ensure that parents of infants that have died do not receive a letter, we are asking Birth Information Specialists (BIS) to leave a Hearing Screening Comment on the birth record.
A comment should be added to the record as soon as a BIS knows that a baby is deceased. Click Comments from the Birth Registration Menu and Select Hearing Screening Comments from the Comment Type dropdown menu. Type in “Baby is deceased” and click Save.
 It is important to select the Hearing Screening Comments type to make sure that the EHDI program will be able to view the comment.
Thank you for your help with this new process which should prevent additional hardship for parents of deceased infants. If you have any questions, please email CHS.PartnerServices@dhsoha.state.or.us.
Helpful Suggestions from Birth Information Specialists
We love it when we get feedback from Birth Information Specialists letting us know some of the things they are doing in their facilities to help them in their jobs. Salem Hospital shared that they put the QR code for the videos to the Acknowledgement of Paternity (AOP) Statement of Rights and Responsibilities on the back of the instruction page of the Birth Parent Worksheets. The QR code information was posted in the July 2022 Newsletter. The codes, one for the English version and one for the Spanish version, make it easy for parents to locate and view the videos. Adding the QR codes to the instruction page of the Birth Parent Worksheets also saves time for employees because they no longer have to locate the link for the parents or go looking for the laminated copies they had made for patient rooms.
Another suggestion we received concerned the Marital Status of Parents section of the Birth Parent Worksheet. Several facilities informed the Center for Health Statistics (CHS) that the questions in this section were confusing to parents. CHS took the feedback from the BIS’s at these facilities and incorporated their suggestions into the most recent version of the form.
Thank you to everyone that has contributed your suggestions to CHS. If you have advice, tips or ideas for future newsletter articles please send an email to CHS.PartnerServices@dhsoha.state.or.us.
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