Summary

Expands and clarifies federal efforts to prevent maternal deaths by directing the CDC, in coordination with HRSA, to share yearly best practices with hospitals, state professional groups, and perinatal quality collaboratives. It improves how maternal death information is recorded and used, so data are more complete and consistent across states. It also updates the terms used by maternal mortality review committees and refreshes the law’s funding language. The goal is to give frontline providers clear guidance, strengthen data quality, and help states and hospitals act on what works to save lives.

Key Points

• Requires CDC, with HRSA, to share yearly best practices to prevent maternal deaths.
• Targets hospitals, state professional societies, and perinatal quality collaboratives for dissemination.
• Improves how maternal death records are handled to enhance data quality.
• Standardizes terminology used by maternal mortality review committees.
• Updates authorization/funding language in the Public Health Service Act (not an appropriation).
• Aims to translate evidence into action at hospitals and state collaboratives.
• Does not change taxes or create new criminal penalties.
• Low administrative burden; primarily guidance, coordination, and clarity.

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