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State proposes home visiting expansion and regional perinatal centers to shore up rural maternal care
Summary
The Department of Public Health and the Department of Community Health presented a package of maternal and child health proposals to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Health that would expand home visiting services and strengthen regional perinatal centers to serve rural Georgia.
The Department of Public Health and the Department of Community Health presented a package of maternal and child health proposals to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Health that would expand home visiting services and strengthen regional perinatal centers to serve rural Georgia.
The agencies told the subcommittee that newborn and maternal outcomes in Georgia remain a concern and that investments should treat maternal and infant health as a dyad. The governor's recommendations include expanding the existing home visiting program from 50 counties to 75 counties and modest state funding for a coordinated network of perinatal centers with telehealth-equipped hub-and-spoke links to local health departments. "We need to look at that as a dyad because a…
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