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7 AAC 12.420. Drugs and biologicals 7 AAC 12.425. Medical records 7 AAC 12.430. Equipment and supplies 7 AAC 12.435. Physical environment 7 AAC 12.437. Physical plant 7 AAC 12.440. (Repealed) 7 AAC 12.442. (Repealed) 7 AAC 12.445. (Repealed) 7 AAC 12.446. Determination of low-risk maternal client 7 AAC 12.449. Definitions 7 AAC 12.400. Licensure. Repealed 11/19/83. Editor’s note: The substance of this regulation was revised and reorganized as part of a comprehensive revision of this chapter, effective 11/19/83, Register 88, and appears in 7 AAC 12.610. The history note at the end of that section does not reflect the history of this section. 7 AAC 12.401. Determination of a free-standing birth center; scope of services. (a) Subject to (b) of this section, the department will consider an entity to be a free-standing birth center if the entity

(1) is a publicly or privately owned facility, place, or institution that is constructed, renovated, leased, rented, or otherwise established;

(2) is a place

(A) where midwifery services are provided;

(B) that is physically separate from acute care obstetrical services;

(C) that is administratively autonomous from a hospital or other health facility; and

(D) that has a separate and required staff, including administrative staff;

(3) is located within 20 miles by road from a hospital that provides the services required under 7 AAC 12.405(g); and

(4) provides planned, nonemergency midwifery services for low-risk maternal clients

(A) away from the client’s residence; a birth center may not offer or provide labor or delivery services at a location other than its licensed premises;