Send secure communication, including follow-up, to the NBS Follow-Up Team
Resources
- Guide to Collecting Dried Blood Spot Newborn Screens
- How are Normal, Abnormal and Critical Screening Results Reported to You and Followed-Up?
- The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomic ACT sheets
- Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD)
- Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program
Forms
- Newborn Screening Dried Blood Spot Collection Kit Order Forms
- Kits may only be ordered by hospitals, midwives, and physicians’ offices, not by private citizens. These kits must be paid for in advance. Submit the completed order form with payment to the Cashier’s Office, Department of General Services for processing. The Cashier’s Office forwards the orders to DCLS once payments have been confirmed.
- DGS Form 19049 Order Form for Hospitals and Physicians
- DGS Form 19050 Order Form for Midwives
- Kits may only be ordered by hospitals, midwives, and physicians’ offices, not by private citizens. These kits must be paid for in advance. Submit the completed order form with payment to the Cashier’s Office, Department of General Services for processing. The Cashier’s Office forwards the orders to DCLS once payments have been confirmed.
- Record Request by Health Care Provider for Continuity of Care
- Send a fax with your practice letterhead requesting the results to the state lab at 804-225-2595.
- Include DOB, mom’s last name, and birth hospital if known.
- Send a fax with your practice letterhead requesting the results to the state lab at 804-225-2595.
- Screening Refusal/Religious Exemption
- Notification of Parental Refusal of Dried-Blood-Spot and Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening
- To be completed and signed by the infant’s parent or guardian who refuses the newborn blood spot screening on the grounds that such test conflicts with his/her religious practices or tenets.
- Notification of Parental Refusal of Dried-Blood-Spot and Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening
Training
- Virginia Newborn Screening Education-CEUs
- How to collect a newborn blood spot:
- Informational webinar on Pompe disease and Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (MPS I)
Websites
- Toolkit for Patients with Genetic Conditions
- Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children
- CDC Newborn Screening
- Baby’s First Test
- March of Dimes- Newborn Screening
- New York Mid Atlantic Consortium (NYMAC)
- Save the Babies Through Screening
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- National Newborn Screening and Global Resource Center
- American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG)
- The Newborn Screening Technical assistance and Evaluation Program (NewSTEPs)
- Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Guidelines for Newborn Screening
- St. Jude’s Research Hospital, information on sickle cell and other hemoglobinopathies
Last Updated: August 29, 2025