Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 196 - Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium

The Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium is established to prevent infant mortality and improve the health of women of childbearing age and infants. The Consortium’s members must be made up of state legislators, a representative from the Governor’s office, the Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, the Department of Health and Social Services and members of the medical, social service, and professional communities and the general public. The Consortium is responsible for providing advice and support to state agencies, hospitals and health care practitioners regarding their roles in reducing infant mortality and improving the health of women of childbearing age and infants.  It will facilitate collaborative partnerships among public health agencies, hospitals, health care practitioners and all other interested agencies and organizations to carry out recommended infant mortality improvement strategies. The Consortium should recommend standards of care to ensure healthy women of childbearing age and infants and oversee development and implementation of research activities to better understand causes of infant mortality. It will also coordinate efforts to prevent conditions and behaviors that lead to unhealthy women of childbearing age and infants. The Consortium is responsible for recommending legislation and regulations that will enhance the health of women of childbearing age and infants. It also will issue an annual report to the Governor on the status of the health of women of childbearing age and infants and progress in implementing recommendations of the Infant Mortality Task Force.