What is a Newborn Screening Facility (NSF)?
An NSF is a facility that educates parents about NBS during prenatal, collects blood sample for newborn screening, sends sample to NSC, recalls patients found positive in newborn screening and assists in the management of patients.

How does one become an NSF?
Effective January 2009, the following will be the process of registration for newborn screening facilities:

1.       Organize a Newborn Screening (NBS) Team. The NBS Team shall be chaired by an NBS Coordinator who shall oversee the NBS Process, collection of samples, release of results, prompt recall, and follow-up of positive cases.

2.       Download and Fill-in the institutional database form.  The form can be also be secured from the Newborn Screening Reference Center - NIH (NSRC-NIH) or your respective DOH Center for Health Development office.

3.        Submit the form to:

Newborn Screening Reference Center
National Institutes of Health, UP Manila
625 Pedro Gil, Ermita, Manila.

 or fax to 02-5224396

4.       NSRC will send the following to the applicant:

a.        A welcome letter indicating the hospital code.

b.       Administrative mechanics including how to order the NBS Specimen Collection Kit.

5.       Once the hospital code and the mechanics are received, order the NBS Specimen Kits from the assigned Newborn Screening Center (NSC).

6.       Start offering newborn screening services once the ordered kits are delivered.

7.       Inform all sections concerned (e.g. Dept of Pediatrics and OB, Nursery) about inclusion of newborn screening in the facility

8.       Prepare an Advocacy and Promotional Plan.

If you have any questions and clarification, please don’t hesitate to contact us through our e-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The facility is encouraged to explore the newborn screening website for more information.

All inquiries for training will be forwarded to the respective Center for Health Development (CHDs). Conduct of training and orientation will be a prerogrative of the CHDs.

For more guidance about the systematic implementation of NBS in your Institution, you may make use of two books entitled: Implementing NBS: A Guide to Coordinators and Inherited Disorders of Metabolism: A Guide for Primary Physicians.