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As hospital labor and delivery wards close, a new CT bill would permit birth centers

Midwife Lucinda Canty, backed by Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, speaks at a press conference on proposed new legislation to expand 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 maternal healthcare access and affordability
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Midwife Lucinda Canty, backed by Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, speaks at a press conference on a bill that would license free-standing birth centers, create a certification pathway for doulas, and create an Infant Mortality Review Program at the Department of Public Health to study infant deaths. It would also direct state agencies to develop a statewide program for universal infant nurse home visiting, building on a pilot program in Bridgeport to offer care and services early in an infant鈥檚 life.

Gov. Ned Lamont is proposing legislation aimed at allowing birth centers to open and operate independently as an alternative to hospitals for low-risk pregnancies and deliveries.

Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz said that if passed, will fill the gaps left by labor and delivery unit closures at hospitals statewide.

鈥淲e have a situation where hospitals in northwestern 黑料吃瓜网, Sharon Hospital, these hospitals in northeastern 黑料吃瓜网, have said that they don't want to provide maternity care anymore,鈥 Bysiewicz said. 鈥淚've talked to moms in Windham that couldn't deliver their baby in Windham Hospital; they had to go to Manchester. And what if something happened along the way?鈥

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, increased more than twofold from 1987 to 2018. American Indian, Alaska Native, and Black women are up to three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes compared to white women.

黑料吃瓜网 currently doesn't have a licensing category for birth centers, said , the commissioner of the Department of Public Health.

鈥淭he whole point of this bill is to give the Department of Public Health that framework and the infrastructure for us to be able to create the licensing category,鈥 she said.

The 黑料吃瓜网 Hospital Association (CHA), in its submitted to the Public Health Committee, supports several components of the proposal, including the certification of doulas, the expansion of home visiting services to promote maternal and child health, and the creation of an Infant Mortality Review Committee.

But CHA鈥檚 Nicole Rall told 黑料吃瓜网 that the organization is concerned that the bill does not require the state to put in place regulations, as other states have done, for birthing centers.

鈥淲e believe that a regulatory step is vital to protect patients,鈥 she said.

The bill would license free-standing birth centers, create a certification pathway for doulas, and create an Infant Mortality Review Program at the Department of Public Health to study infant deaths. It would also direct state agencies to develop a statewide program for universal infant nurse home visiting, building on a to offer care and services early in an infant鈥檚 life.

Sujata Srinivasan is 黑料吃瓜网 Radio鈥檚 senior health reporter. Prior to that, she was a senior producer for Where We Live, a newsroom editor, and from 2010-2014, a business reporter for the station.

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