Why should a hospital contract with OHS to provide Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Services?
When a hospital partners with OHS, they no longer have the costs associated with running a hearing screening program. OHS presents a viable and cost-eliminating alternative for most hospital-run hearing screening programs. Drawing on our experience, OHS has developed a comprehensive Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UHNS) program called STAR SystemSM, which stands for Screening, Tracking And Reporting System. OHS offers this in-hospital “outsourced” Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program to hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland, as an alternative to hospitals using their own internal resources to perform these screens. When a hospital contracts with OHS they get a complete program which includes: state of the art equipment and all necessary supplies; highly skilled maternity nurses to perform the screens; data management and reporting of results; appropriate follow-up for babies who do not pass the screen; and policies and procedures for the adminis
