Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
Louisiana Maternal Mortality Review - Project Abstract Since 2010, the Louisiana Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (LA-PAMR) has served as Louisiana’s maternal mortality surveillance program. LA-PAMR, an activity of the Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health, Bureau of Family Health (BFH), works to quantify and understand pregnancy-associated deaths through epidemiological surveillance and multidisciplinary case review, and to create comprehensive, actionable recommendations to prevent future deaths. Purpose The Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality program offers an opportunity to continue support for coordination and management of LA-PAMR and to facilitate efforts toward eliminating preventable deaths. Outcomes BFH seeks to decrease the rate of maternal mortality in Louisiana by eliminating all preventable maternal deaths. LA-PAMR efforts ensure information about pregnancy-associated deaths, including recommendations for prevention, is available to partners through collaboration and strategic alliances with healthcare systems, public health agencies, community-based organizations, insurance payers, and policy makers. LA-PAMR findings inform prevention, awareness, and health promotion strategies; improve policies and practices of systems serving families; and advance the implementation of recommendations, both clinical and non-clinical. Strategies Through this funding opportunity, BFH will improve upon existing activities of maternal mortality surveillance and prevention efforts by: • Maintaining timely review of pregnancy-associated deaths by a diverse and multidisciplinary review committee, within two years of an identified death; • Providing timely dissemination of findings and recommendations to key partners and the public through reports and supplemental data materials; • Engaging with organizations, agencies, and community groups serving and/or representing populations disproportionately affected by maternal mortality; • Driving implementation of provider-, facility-, system-, and community-level recommendations for prevention. ERASE-MM funding continuation is vital to the ongoing success of Louisiana’s maternal mortality surveillance system and the capacity of BFH to provide timely, accurate, and actionable data to inform statewide and local prevention strategies and activities.
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