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Committee moves to rename and update New Hampshire maternal mortality review process
Summary
The Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee heard testimony and advanced legislation to rename and revise the maternal mortality review statute, expand committee membership, and secure data access for deidentified case reviews.
Representative Mary Hacken Phillips introduced Senate Bill 182 on behalf of Senator Sue Prentiss, describing the bill as a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) request to update the statute governing New Hampshire’s multidisciplinary maternal mortality review process.
SB 182 would rename the existing “maternal mortality review panel” as the Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC); revise the definition of a pregnancy-associated death to include any death of a woman while pregnant or within one year of the end of pregnancy irrespective of duration or site of pregnancy; specify institutional facilitation by DHHS jointly with the New Hampshire Perinatal Quality Collaborative affiliated with Dartmouth Health; add membership from the Division for Child, Youth and Families and the…
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