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NEW JERSEY ENACTS MANDATORY DEPRESSION
SCREENING
TRENTON, NJ (April 8, 2006)-The State of New Jersey has passed a law requiring doctors and other
health professionals who take care of new mothers to screen them
for depression, using the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale
(EPDS). Its new law requires health care professionals to screen
all new mothers for postpartum depression before they leave the
hospital, and again after several weeks.
They are also required to educate expectant mothers about PPD and
provide them with literature and information so that they can get
proper treatment. This bill was given enormous support by Mary Jo
Codey who served as First Lady of New Jersey from November 16, 2004
to January 17, 2006. She is the wife of former New Jersey Governor
Richard Codey.
Many States are getting much more active. The State of Virginia
has launched a website that trains physicians to detect and treat
Perinatal Depression. The state of Virginia Health Department is
again ordering FMHI brochures to be given to every new mother in
the state.
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