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Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2011

Introduced: March 9, 2011 See on congress.gov
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Mar 11, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 3, 2011
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Mar 3, 2011
Introduced in House
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Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to states for: (1) mandatory reporting to the state department of health by health care providers and other entities of pregnancy-related deaths; (2) establishment of a state maternal mortality review committee on pregnancy-related deaths occurring within such state; (3) implementation and use of the comprehensive case abstraction form by such committee to preserve the uniformity of the information collected; and (4) annual public disclosure of committee findings.

Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to: (1) organize a national workshop to identify definitions for severe maternal morbidity and make recommendations for a research plan to identify and monitor such morbidity in the United States; and (2) develop uniform definitions of severe maternal morbidity, a research plan, and possible data collection protocols to assist states in identifying and monitoring such cases.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to carry out specified research and demonstration activities to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes.

What's happening now March 11, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 894: Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2011. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-894/
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