Bill Text: IL SR0063 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Urges the General Assembly to continue to investigate and identify areas in which the State can improve with respect to the prevention of maternal mortality, especially among vulnerable populations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-04-30 - Resolution Adopted [SR0063 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SR0063-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Urges the General Assembly to continue to investigate and identify areas in which the State can improve with respect to the prevention of maternal mortality, especially among vulnerable populations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-04-30 - Resolution Adopted [SR0063 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SR0063-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, African American women in the United States | ||||||
3 | experience maternal-related deaths at three to four times the | ||||||
4 | rate of non-Hispanic white women, according to the Mothers and | ||||||
5 | Offspring Mortality and Morbidity Awareness Act, introduced by | ||||||
6 | U.S. Representative Robin Kelly of Illinois in May of 2018; and
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7 | WHEREAS, In Illinois, Non-Hispanic black women are six | ||||||
8 | times as likely to die of a pregnancy-related condition as | ||||||
9 | non-Hispanic white women, and 72 percent of the | ||||||
10 | pregnancy-related deaths and 93 percent of violent | ||||||
11 | pregnancy-related deaths were deemed preventable by review | ||||||
12 | committees; and
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13 | WHEREAS, The United States has not been able to submit a | ||||||
14 | formal maternal mortality rate to international data | ||||||
15 | repositories since 2007; in order to be able to calculate a | ||||||
16 | formal maternal mortality rate, maternal mortality-related | ||||||
17 | data must be streamlined at the State level and extrapolated to | ||||||
18 | the federal level; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Leaders in maternal wellness highly recommend | ||||||
20 | that maternal deaths be investigated at the State level first; | ||||||
21 | and
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1 | WHEREAS, Hemorrhage, infection, and hypertensive disorders | ||||||
2 | of pregnancy are among the top common causes of | ||||||
3 | pregnancy-related deaths in Illinois; and
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4 | WHEREAS, The State of California has established Maternal | ||||||
5 | Mortality Review Committees to determine the most prevalent | ||||||
6 | causes of maternal mortality and has recorded and shared data | ||||||
7 | with providers and researchers, who have developed and | ||||||
8 | implemented safety bundles and care protocols related to | ||||||
9 | preeclampsia, maternal hemorrhage, and other prevalent causes | ||||||
10 | of maternal mortality; and
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11 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Public Health | ||||||
12 | currently works with the Maternal Mortality Review Committee | ||||||
13 | and the Maternal Mortality Review Committee for Violent deaths | ||||||
14 | to review cases of maternal death and to develop statewide | ||||||
15 | recommendations to prevent future maternal deaths; and
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16 | WHEREAS, In the State of California, state-based maternal | ||||||
17 | quality collaborative organizations have formed obstetrical | ||||||
18 | protocols, tool kits, and other resources to improve system | ||||||
19 | care and response as they relate to maternal complications and | ||||||
20 | warning signs for conditions, including maternal hemorrhage, | ||||||
21 | hypertension, and preeclampsia; and
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22 | WHEREAS, Illinois has begun developing protocols and |
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1 | resources to address common causes of maternal mortality in the | ||||||
2 | State, such as implementing new training material regarding | ||||||
3 | hemorrhages through the Obstetric Hemorrhage Education Project | ||||||
4 | (OBHEP) in 2016; and
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5 | WHEREAS, The CDC reports that more than half of all | ||||||
6 | maternal deaths occur in the immediate postpartum period, which | ||||||
7 | is 42 days to a full year after delivery; yet, for pregnant | ||||||
8 | women, Medicaid coverage lapses at the end of the month on | ||||||
9 | which the 60th postpartum day lands; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Expanding Medicaid and CHIP coverage for pregnant | ||||||
11 | and postpartum women has been a part of improving federal | ||||||
12 | efforts for the prevention of maternal mortality; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Racism is deeply ingrained in the United States | ||||||
14 | systems, including in health care delivery systems between | ||||||
15 | patients and providers, often resulting in disparate treatment | ||||||
16 | of pain, irreverence to cultural norms with respect to health, | ||||||
17 | and dismissiveness; however, the provider pool is not primed | ||||||
18 | with many people of color, nor are providers consistently | ||||||
19 | required to undergo implicit bias, cultural competency, or | ||||||
20 | empathy training on a consistent, on-going basis; and
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21 | WHEREAS, There have been efforts to address implicit bias | ||||||
22 | and cultural competency at the federal level by awarding |
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1 | cooperative agreements for the establishment or support of | ||||||
2 | regional centers of excellence addressing implicit bias and | ||||||
3 | cultural competency in patient-provider interactions for the | ||||||
4 | purpose of enhancing and improving how health care | ||||||
5 | professionals are educated in implicit bias and delivering | ||||||
6 | culturally competent health care; and
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7 | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois recognizes the importance of | ||||||
8 | investigating and addressing maternal mortality issues in the | ||||||
9 | State; therefore, be it
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10 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | ||||||
11 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the General | ||||||
12 | Assembly to continue to investigate and identify areas in which | ||||||
13 | the State can improve with respect to the prevention of | ||||||
14 | maternal mortality, especially among vulnerable populations.
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