211.122 Educational materials regarding perinatal mental health disorders --
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Kentucky Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative -- Establishment --
Purposes -- Annual report.
(1)The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall, in cooperation with maternal and
infant health and mental health professional societies:
(a)Develop written information on perinatal mental health disorders and make it
available on its website for access by freestanding birthing centers, hospitals
that provide labor and delivery services, and the public; and
(b)Provide access on its website to one
(1)or more evidence-based clinical
assessment tools designed to detect the symptoms of perinatal mental health
disorders for use by health care providers providing perinatal care and health
care providers providing pediatric infant care.
(2)The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall establish the Kentucky Maternal
and Infant Health Collaborative. The collaborative shall be composed of the
following members appointed by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services:
(a)Four
(4)representatives of health care facilities that provide obstetrical,
newborn, maternal, and infant health care, one
(1)of whom shall be a member
of the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists;
(b)Two
(2)providers of maternal mental health care;
(c)Two
(2)representatives of university mental health training programs;
(d)Two
(2)maternal health advocates;
(e)Three
(3)women, each of whom shall have experience living with at least one
(1)of the following:
1. Perinatal mental health disorders;
2. Substance use disorder; and
3. Intimate partner violence;
(f)One
(1)public health director of a local health department in the
Commonwealth; and
(g)The commissioner of the Department for Public Health or his or her designee.
(3)The purposes of the collaborative shall be:
(a)Improving the quality of prevention and treatment of perinatal mental health
disorders;
(b)Promoting the implementation of evidence-based bundles of care to improve
patient safety;
(c)Identifying unaddressed gaps in service related to perinatal mental health
disorders that are linked to geographic, racial, and ethnic inequalities; lack of
screenings; and insufficient access to treatments, professionals, or support
groups; and
(d)Exploring grant and other funding opportunities and making
recommendations for funding allocations to address the need for services and
supports for perinatal mental health disorders.
(4)The collaborative shall annually review the operations of the Kentucky Maternal
Psychiatry Access Program established in KRS 211.123.
(5)The objectives set forth in subsection
(3)of this section may be achieved by
incorporating the collaborative's findings and recommendations into other programs
administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services that are intended to
improve maternal health care quality and safety.
(6)On or before November 1 of each year, the collaborative shall submit a report to the
Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children, the Interim Joint Committee on
Health Services, and the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance describing the
collaborative's work and any recommendations to address identified gaps in
services and supports for perinatal mental health disorders.