Minnesota § 144.124 - EDUCATION ON RECOGNIZING SIGNS OF PHYSICAL ABUSE IN INFANTS
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§ 144.124. EDUCATION ON RECOGNIZING SIGNS OF PHYSICAL ABUSE IN INFANTS
Subdivision 1.Education by health care providers.
Family practice physicians, pediatricians, and other pediatric primary care providers must provide parents and primary caregivers of infants up to six months of age with materials on how to recognize the signs of physical abuse in infants and how to report suspected physical abuse of infants. These materials must be identified and approved by the commissioner of health according to subdivision 2 and must be provided to an infant's parents or primary caregivers at the infant's first well-baby visit after birth.
Subd. 2.Materials.
The commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of children, youth, and families, must identify, approve, and make available to pediatric primary care providers materials for pediatric primary care providers to use at well-baby visits to educate parents and primary caregivers of infants up to six months of age on recognizing the signs of physical abuse in infants and how to report suspected physical abuse of infants. The commissioner must make these materials available on the Department of Health website.
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Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes
Source: official Minnesota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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