Treatment permitted

  1. Law
  2. US Virgin Islands Code
  3. Health
  4. Hospitals and Nursing Schools
  5. Medical and Surgical Treatment of Minors
  6. Treatment permitted

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  • Any physician, surgeon, institution or facility of the Department of Health or any public or private hospital, or any Federally Qualified Health Center as designated by the Bureau of Primary Health Care and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may provide counseling, examination, treatment, hospitalization and medical and surgical care for any minor for any of the following:

    • (a) Pregnancy, including abortion, provided the provisions of Title 14, chapter 5, of the Code are complied with.

    • (b) Communicable disease.

    • (c) Drug or controlled substance abuse including those referred to in Title 19, chapter 29, Virgin Islands Code.

    • (d) Any emergency medical or surgical treatment in which undue delay would endanger the life or health of such person.

    • (e) Family planning services.

    • (f) Behavioral health services.

    • (g) Dental services.


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