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Committee backs bill to create regional perinatal advisory committee; it clarifies access to maternal mental-health records and autopsies
Summary
House Bill 89, which would establish a regional perinatal center advisory committee and clarify access to psychiatric records for maternal mortality review and autopsy procedures, received unanimous committee support.
The Health and Human Services Committee unanimously approved a do-pass recommendation for House Bill 89, which would create a regional perinatal center advisory committee to coordinate care among six existing centers and clarify procedures for maternal mortality review, psychiatric-record access and autopsy responsibility.
Representative Chair Lee, presenting the bill, said the advisory committee would help ensure regional perinatal centers ‘‘are basically all working off the same page’’ and coordinate referral and specialist access for rural providers. ‘‘We have 6 regional perinatal centers across our state… If they have questions or…
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