2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 211 - State health programs 211.684 Authorization to establish state child and maternal fatality review team -- Annual report on child and maternal fatalities to include demographics of race, income, and geography.
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211.684 Authorization to establish state child and maternal fatality review team -Annual report on child and maternal fatalities to include demographics of
race, income, and geography.
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For the purposes of KRS Chapter 211:
(a) "Child fatality" means the death of a person under the age of eighteen (18)
years;
(b) "Local child and maternal fatality response team" and "local team" means a
community team composed of representatives of agencies, offices, and
institutions that investigate child and maternal deaths, including but not
limited to, coroners, social service workers, medical professionals, law
enforcement officials, and Commonwealth's and county attorneys; and
(c) "Maternal fatality" means the death of a woman within one (1) year of giving
birth.
The Department for Public Health may establish a state child and maternal fatality
review team. The state team may include representatives of public health, social
services, law enforcement, prosecution, coroners, health-care providers, and other
agencies or professions deemed appropriate by the commissioner of the department.
If a state team is created, the duties of the state team may include the following:
(a) Develop and distribute a model protocol for local child and maternal fatality
response teams for the investigation of child and maternal fatalities;
(b) Facilitate the development of local child and maternal fatality response teams
which may include, but is not limited to, providing joint training opportunities
and, upon request, providing technical assistance;
(c) Review and approve local protocols prepared and submitted by local teams;
(d) Receive data and information on child and maternal fatalities and analyze the
information to identify trends, patterns, and risk factors;
(e) Evaluate the effectiveness of prevention and intervention strategies adopted;
and
(f) Recommend changes in state programs, legislation, administrative regulations,
policies, budgets, and treatment and service standards which may facilitate
strategies for prevention and reduce the number of child and maternal
fatalities.
The department shall prepare an annual report to be submitted no later than
November 1 of each year to the Governor, the Child Welfare Oversight and
Advisory Committee established in KRS 6.943, the Interim Joint Committee on
Health, Welfare, and Family Services, the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme
Court, and to be made available to the citizens of the Commonwealth. The report
shall include a statistical analysis, that include the demographics of race, income,
and geography, of the incidence and causes of child and maternal fatalities in the
Commonwealth during the past fiscal year and recommendations for action. The
report shall not include any information which would identify specific child and
maternal fatality cases.
Effective: June 29, 2021
History: Amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 1, effective June 29, 2021. -- Amended
2018 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2018; and ch. 159, sec. 54, effective
July 14, 2018. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 61, effective July 14, 2000. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 311, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1996
Ky. Acts ch. 347, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996.
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