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Advocates and bereaved families press for NIPORTS access, grieving‑families protections
Summary
Community members, clinicians and unions urged the City Council to push for access to the state’s NIPORTS event data, stronger maternal‑health investments and legal remedies for families after maternal deaths.
Speakers at the public‑testimony portion of the hearing urged the city to press state officials to share detailed incident data and to expand supports for families affected by pregnancy‑related deaths.
Patricia Loughman, a certified nurse‑midwife and former director of midwifery at Harlem Hospital, told the committees that the New York City Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC) has reviewed nearly 400 deaths since 2018 and needs access to the New York Patient Occurrence Reporting and Tracking System — known as NIPORTs — to fully investigate and recommend systemwide improvements.
“NIPORTs is a statewide mandatory reporting system that collects information … about adverse events,” Loughman said. She told the council the registry contains root‑cause analysis categories — for example, staffing levels, time of day…
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