Sec. 5407. Additional focus area for the Office on Women’s Health
392 words·~2 min read·
/bill/117/s/4486/is/section-5407A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Section 229(b) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 237a(b) ), as amended by sections 5216 and 5301, is further amended by adding at the end the following: facilitate policymakers, health system leaders and providers, consumers, and other stakeholders in understanding optimal maternity care and support for the provision of such care, including the priorities of— protecting, promoting, and supporting the innate capacities of childbearing individuals and their newborns for childbirth, breastfeeding, and attachment; using obstetric interventions only when such interventions are supported by strong, high-quality evidence, and minimizing overuse of maternity practices that have been shown to have benefit in limited situations and that can expose people, infants, or both to risk of harm if used routinely and indiscriminately, including continuous electronic fetal monitoring, labor induction, epidural analgesia, primary cesarean section, and routine repeat cesarean birth; reliably incorporating noninvasive, evidence-based practices that have a documented correlation with considerable improvement in outcomes with no detrimental side effects, such as smoking cessation programs in pregnancy, maternal immunizations, and proven models (including group prenatal care, midwifery care, and doula support) that integrate health assessment, education, and support into a unified program and supporting evidence-based breastfeeding promotion efforts with respect for a breastfeeding individual’s personal decision making; a shared understanding of the qualifications of licensed providers of maternity care and the best evidence about the safety, satisfaction, outcomes, and costs of maternity care, and appropriate deployment of such caregivers within the maternity care workforce to address the needs of childbearing individuals and newborns and the growing shortage of maternity caregivers; a shared understanding of the results of the best available research comparing hospital, birth center, and planned home births, including information about each setting’s safety, satisfaction, outcomes, and costs; a shared understanding of the importance for the safety and choices of birthing families of an integrated maternity care system with seamless processes for consultation, shared care, transfer and transport across maternity care settings, and providers when birthing people and their newborns require a higher level of care; high-quality, evidence-based childbirth education that— promotes a healthy and safe approach to pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting; is taught by certified educators, peer counselors, and health professionals; and promotes informed decision making by childbearing individuals; and developing measures that enable a more robust, balanced set of standardized maternity care measures, including performance and quality measures. .
Connectionstraces to 1
Traces to 1 document
Citation graph
cites case law
Sec. 5407
Additional focus area for the Office on Women’s Health
Cites 1Cited by 0 across 0 sources