Budget Amendment ID: FY2022-S3-385-R1

Redraft EHS 385

Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts

Ms. Chandler, Mr. Moore, Ms. Rausch, Ms. Comerford, Mr. O'Connor and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after item 4513-1002 the following item:-

"4513-1003 For the Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts, a joint venture of the Massachusetts Perinatal Quality Collaborative and the Neonatal Quality Collaborative to improve health outcomes for mothers, newborns and families by reducing maternal morbidity and mortality, reducing health care disparities, reducing opioid use disorder in pregnancy and supporting quality improvement initiatives to improve maternal and child health outcomes and achieve health equity; provided, that the department of public health shall provide relevant data to the program in order to determine scope and scale of the program, including data on volume and prevalence of pregnancy-related deaths in the commonwealth; and provided further, that the department shall collect data to gauge the success of the program in decreasing pregnancy-related deaths and track trends within the patient population, including, but not limited to, variance by age, race and comorbidities.……………………………$500,000”.