2022 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. (Effective January 1, 2023).
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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.
(Effective January 1,
2023)
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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 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:January 1, 2023
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 28, effective January 1, 2023; and
ch. 223, sec. 12, effective January 1, 2023. -- 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.
Legislative Research Commission Note (1/1/2023). This statute was amended by
2022 Ky. Acts chs. 211 and 223, which are identical and have been codified
together.
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