Maternal Mortality Review Committee opens year, approves minutes and moves to executive session on criminal‑death cases
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Summary
The Maternal Mortality Review Committee convened for its first meeting of the year, completed member introductions, approved December minutes by consensus, and voted to enter an executive session to consider confidential matters related to criminal deaths in Connecticut; no public comments were recorded.
Lisa Budris, an epidemiologist at the Department of Public Health and co‑chair of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee, opened the committee’s first meeting of the year and led member introductions before moving the group through routine business.
The committee approved the minutes from its December meeting after the chair asked whether there were any edits and a motion to approve was made and seconded. The meeting record shows the approval was acknowledged by the chair without a roll‑call vote.
The chair then asked for a motion to move into an executive session “to discuss confidential matters related to criminal deaths in Connecticut requiring privacy to deliberate on the issue.” A motion to enter executive session was made and seconded; the committee transitioned into executive session for those confidential deliberations.
No public commenters spoke during the open session. The chair noted the committee will meet again in February and a motion to adjourn was made and seconded before the meeting closed.
Attendees who introduced themselves included Justin Kao, chair of emergency medicine at Bridgeport Hospital; Kathleen Chapman, clinical psychologist representing the Connecticut Psychological Association; Lindsay Ellis, an OB‑GYN practicing in Norwich; Kim Koranda, section chief at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; Shayna LaFlamme, nurse consultant for the Department of Public Health; Ayanna Lyles, MMRC co‑chair and practicing OB‑GYN; Laura Lucarelli, neonatal nurse practitioner at Middlesex Hospital; Monica Nugent, consumer member; Andrea Shields, representing maternal fetal medicine; Maggie Young, Chief Recovery Officer at Liberation Programs; and guest Jennifer Squires of the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
The open portion of the meeting contained procedural business only. The committee did not take policy votes or discuss substantive public issues in the open session; confidential case deliberations proceeded in executive session.
The committee adjourned the open meeting and will reconvene in February.
