Year: 2010
Resolution Number: 86
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): Donald P. Condit, MD, MBA
Sponsor: Domenic R. Federico, MD
On behalf of: Kent County Delegation
Committee: E (Science & Education Affairs)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS encourage the next annual Conference on Maternal & Perinatal Health Committee to maintain all efforts to increase stillbirth awareness and to comply with current recommendations among Michigan health care providers of this tragic pregnancy complication; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to lobby Congress to enact H.R. 521 the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act of 2009, which is a federal resolution that promotes stillbirth research by standardizing the definition of stillbirth and funding a national repository for stillbirth data, authorizes a campaign to increase public awareness of the risk for stillbirth, and encourages the director of the National Institutes of Health to allocate more resources to stillbirth research.RATIONALE: The first resolved was amended to allow the Maternal and Perinatal Health Planning Committee the option of selecting the best educational approach(es) to increase awareness of stillbirths at the next annual Conference.
RESOLVED: That MSMS encourage the next annual Conference on Maternal & Perinatal Health Committee to maintain all efforts to increase stillbirth awareness and to comply with current recommendations among Michigan health care providers of this tragic pregnancy complication; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to lobby Congress to enact H.R. 521 the Stillbirth Awareness and Research Act of 2009, which is a federal resolution that promotes stillbirth research by standardizing the definition of stillbirth and funding a national repository for stillbirth data, authorizes a campaign to increase public awareness of the risk for stillbirth, and encourages the director of the National Institutes of Health to allocate more resources to stillbirth research.RATIONALE: The first resolved was amended to allow the Maternal and Perinatal Health Planning Committee the option of selecting the best educational approach(es) to increase awareness of stillbirths at the next annual Conference.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Stillbirth Awareness