Infant Mortality Review Committee approves minutes, moves into executive session to review confidential deaths

Shana LaFlamme, nurse consultant for the Department of Public Health and co-chair of the Infant Mortality Review Committee, opened the July 8 meeting and asked attendees to introduce themselves. "Welcome, everyone, to our July 8th infant mortality review meeting," she said as the group completed roll call.

The committee corrected the May minutes to show the meeting occurred on May 13 (the draft had listed May 14) and then approved the revised May minutes after Diana Nordella, co-chair and a general pediatrician at Fairhaven and Yale, moved the motion and Shana LaFlamme seconded. The committee also approved the June minutes, which had been an in-person meeting at the Lyceum, after a separate motion that was seconded by Taylor Sansevero, a pediatric primary care nurse practitioner at Wildwood Pediatrics representing the Connecticut chapter of NAPNAP.

There were no public comments during the allotted public-comment period.

Before moving to case review, LaFlamme told the group that the committee would hold a closed session. "This is a closed discussion to discuss confidential matters related to infant deaths in Connecticut requiring privacy," she said. Kathy Britos, supervisor of the reproductive and perinatal health unit that houses the infant mortality review program at the Department of Public Health, moved to enter executive session; Diana Nordella seconded the motion and the committee proceeded into the closed session to review confidential case material.

After the executive session, the committee confirmed its next meeting date as Aug. 12 and adjourned. The recording was stopped at the end of the meeting. No formal roll-call vote totals were recorded in the public transcript for the motions to approve minutes or to enter executive session; motions were moved and seconded and the meeting proceeded accordingly.