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Connecticut Health Foundation presents maternal health equity blueprint to Maternal Mortality Review Committee
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The Connecticut Health Foundation presented a maternal health equity blueprint to the Connecticut Maternal Mortality Review Committee, proposing five priorities including a statewide severe maternal morbidity review, financing reforms to expand access to doulas and team-based care, strengthened behavioral‑health supports, workforce diversification, and policies to improve economic security.
Tiffany Donaldson of the Connecticut Health Foundation presented the foundation's maternal health equity blueprint to the Connecticut Maternal Mortality Review Committee at its February meeting, urging policy and administrative changes to reduce severe maternal morbidity and close racial disparities.
The blueprint, developed with input from an advisory committee and hundreds of community interviews, outlines five priority areas. Ariel Levenbecker, who discussed the priorities in detail, said the first is to "treat inequities in severe maternal morbidity as a critical public health issue" by establishing a statewide severe maternal morbidity…
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