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This bill is modeled off of maternal patient safety bundles established by the Council on Patient Safety in Women's Health Care's and the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. These patient safety bundles provide a standardized approach to move established guidelines into practice. They ensure that healthcare providers have standard protocols in place to ensure the readiness of health care systems, teams, and patients; recognition of an issue; know what the appropriate response is, are equipped with all the tools needed; as well as have the process in place to track the issue for quality improvement and reporting. Statewide implementation of these bundles would ensure that every care setting has a systematic and comprehensive framework for care delivery. The bill establishes training protocols and treatment guidelines for general hospitals providing maternity care. Under the bill, the Department of Health is to establish training protocols and treatment guidelines for each general hospital providing maternity care that is licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) to follow as a condition of licensure in the following areas of concern, as determined by the Department of Health, to ensure the safety of female patients in maternity care:(1) maternal depression and anxiety; (2) maternal venous thromboembolism; (3) obstetric care for women with opioid use disorder; (4) obstetric hemorrhaging; (5) postpartum care basics for maternal safety from birth through postpartum stage; (6) prevention of retained vaginal sponges following birth; (7) reduction of peripartum, racial and ethnic disparities; (8) safe reduction of primary cesarean birth; (9) severe hypertension during pregnancy; (10) multidisciplinary support following a severe maternal event; and (11) postpartum care basics for maternal safety from maternity to well-woman care.

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Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D)*,  Linda Greenstein (D)*, 

Senate Amendment (33-0) (Cruz-Perez) (on 03/25/2019)