Sunday, June 1, 2025
6/1/2025
Arkansas Maternal Mortality Review Committee - The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) coordinates administration, policy-making and public health services for the state through a central office located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The vision is to protect and improve the health and well-being of all Arkansans. The mission is to optimize health for all Arkansans to achieve maximum personal, economic, and social impact. ADH will continue to improve data quality, characterizing pregnancy-related deaths and address health inequities to help eliminate preventable maternal deaths through the goals of the Arkansas Maternal Mortality Review Committee (AMMRC). The goals of the AMMRC are to: • Perform thorough record abstraction to obtain details of events and issues leading up to a mother's death. • Perform a multidisciplinary review of cases to gain a holistic understanding of the issues. • Determine the annual number of maternal deaths related to pregnancy (pregnancy-related mortality). • Identify trends and risk factors among pregnancy-related death in Arkansas. • Recommend improvements to care at the individual, provider, and system levels with the potential for reducing or preventing future events. • Prioritize findings and recommendations to guide development of effective preventive measures. • Recommend actionable strategies for prevention and intervention. • Disseminate the findings and recommendations to a broad array of individuals and organizations. • Promote the translation of findings and recommendations into quality improvement actions at all levels. ADH conducts maternal mortality reviews in compliance with the statue, regulations, legislative mandates, and guarantee alignment with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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