Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
With this project, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services will continue to perform the highest quality maternal mortality review processes, as it has done since 1995. ERASE-MM grant funding has enabled Utah to work closely with our colleagues in Wyoming to put together a well-rounded, expert committee for the holistic review of all pregnancy associated deaths. The purpose of this project will be to continue with this excellent work, to vet current Utah DHHS processes for potential improvement and to expand dissemination and implementation of the maternal mortality review findings. Utah will continue to work to be leaders in implementing new processes and science about review procedures. We will work to ensure that maternal mortality review programs across the nation have the best information possible. Utah will continue to meet the ERASE-MM benchmarks for case ascertainment, data quality, timeliness of review, creation of appropriately crafted recommendations, data analysis and dissemination of mortality review outcomes. This funding will enable expansion of the efforts to create data products and fund an outreach coordinator to focus on bringing best practices to all areas of Utah’s care systems. Utah will continue to participate in the analysis of aggregate national and regional data. Through these continued and renewed efforts to improve the information available about maternal deaths to the communities of Utah and Wyoming we have the goal of achieving improvement in the rates of maternal morbidity and mortality for our states.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).