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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-1202" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Maternal Mortality Review Program">
  <text>The General Assembly finds that:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Maternal deaths are a serious public health concern and have a tremendous family and societal impact;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Maternal deaths are significantly underestimated and inadequately documented, preventing efforts to identify and reduce or eliminate the causes of death;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>No processes exist in the State for the confidential identification, investigation, or dissemination of findings regarding maternal deaths; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>There is a need to establish a Maternal Mortality Review Program to review maternal deaths and to develop strategies for the prevention of maternal deaths.</text>
  </level>
</section>
