The birth hospital plays a central role in the EHDI process. Hospitals in New Jersey perform infant hearing screenings before nursery discharge and communicate these results with parents, primary care providers and the EHDI program. What’s more, they are doing a great job screening over 100,000 babies each year! Over 99.8% of all babies born in a New Jersey had their hearing screened before they were discharged home.
All New Jersey birthing facilities are required to have a plan (policy) on file outlining their procedures to ensure compliance with New Jersey EHDI Administrative Rules and the 2019 JCIH Position Statement guidelines. Annual submission of the policy is required.
EHDI Requirements
The main role of the hospital's EHDI program is to ensure that the EHDI requirements for their facility are met and to serve as a liaison to the State EHDI program.
Each New Jersey hospital identifies a main EHDI contact person. This individual oversees the EHDI operations for their facility, receives New Jersey EHDI correspondences and answers EHDI questions for their facility while serving as a liaison for parents should questions arise. The New Jersey EHDI program has created two educational webinars that clarify many of the roles and responsibilities for the main EHDI contact person.
Vital Events Registration and Information (VERI)
As of July 2021, OVSR implemented a revised electronic birth certificate system, the Vital Events Registration and Information (VERI) system. VERI will replace the previously used VIP system. Eventually records that were created in VIP will be migrated into VERI with a record stage of closeout. Hospitals cannot edit any records in the closeout stage and OVSR can only do amendments to fields that are on the birth certificates.
VERI Resources
For information on the VERI platform, please access our resources found on www.learnveri.org
For information on how to register a fetal death within VERI, click here
