Hospitals & Midwives
Training
View the File in Five Focus quarterly training series on the Training page.
Documents
- Amendments
- CDC Best Practices Instructions
- CDC Guide to Completing the Facility Worksheets for the Certificate of Live Birth and Report of Fetal Death
- Digital Affidavit of Parentage Process
- Documenting RSV Immunization Status
- File in Five
- File in Five Focus Resources
- File in Five Training Questions
- How-to Enter a Safe Delivery
- Immunizations Submitting Hepatitis B Information
- Link Plural Delivery
- Live Birth Fetal Death Flowchart
- Parent Handout
- How-to Enter a Spouse Refusal
- How-to Start a New Record
- How-to Search for a Case
2024 Hospital Birth Certificate Timeliness Report is now available
Birth certificates are an important source of public health statistics that are used to improve the health and outcomes of mothers and newborns in Michigan and nationwide. Michigan law requires facilities to report births within 5 days of the date of birth (MCL333.2822(1)(a)). This report, produced from information in Michigan’s electronic birth registration system, VERA, assesses the performance of Michigan birth hospitals toward the five-day certification goal.
In all tables, the number of days to certify births is calculated as the difference between each child’s date of birth and the date certified in VERA. In 2021, 64% of hospital births were certified within 5 days. In 2023, that number increased to 86%. Thank you for your hard work in helping to improve the timeliness of registration!