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Infant Mortality Review Committee approves December minutes, moves to executive session on confidential cases
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Summary
The Connecticut Infant Mortality Review Committee convened Jan. 14, approved its Dec. 3 minutes by unanimous consent, introduced a new DSS nurse consultant member, and voted to go into executive session to discuss confidential infant-death cases.
The Connecticut Infant Mortality Review Committee met on January 14. Shana LaFlamme, nurse consultant and co-chair of the Infant Mortality Review Program at the Connecticut Department of Public Health, opened the meeting and led a roll call of clinicians and state staff.
Committee members approved the minutes from the committee's Dec. 3 meeting after the chair said no edits had been submitted. "If there's no changes to be made, if I can have a motion to approve the December [minutes]," the chair asked; a motion was made and a second was voiced, and the minutes were adopted by consensus.
The group invited public comment and noted the committee would not enter into dialogue with commenters during this portion of the agenda. The chair then moved the committee into an executive session. "The committee will be entering into executive session. This is a closed discussion to discuss confidential matters related to infant deaths in Connecticut requiring privacy to deliberate on this issue," the chair said. Kim Koranda, section chief at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, moved to enter executive session; an attendee seconded. The chair asked if anyone opposed; seeing none, the committee shifted to the closed session on the meeting's Zoom link.
Participants included clinical and public-health staff from Yale New Haven Health, Connecticut Children's, Backus, the Office of the Child Advocate, the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Department of Social Services, the Office of Early Childhood and others. The meeting introduced Regina Usu as a new member representing the Department of Social Services.
The public portion closed when the committee began the confidential deliberations; no substantive details about cases were discussed publicly prior to the executive session. The committee planned to reenter public session only to adjourn.
