(a) During the postpartum period and prior to discharge, each hospital shall provide parents of newborns educational information on pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine to protect against such disease. Such educational information shall include, but not be limited to, information on the recommendation by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that parents of newborns receive the vaccination during the postpartum period to protect the newborns from the transmission of pertussis.(b) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to require any hospital to provide or pay for any vaccination against pertussis.Added by 2011 Ga. Laws 243,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2011.
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