The state department shall employ a statewide fetal-infant mortality review coordinator to assist local fetal-infant mortality review teams and do the following:
- (1) Establish local fetal-infant mortality review teams statewide.
- (2) Act as a liaison between the statewide child fatality review committee and local fetal-infant mortality review teams.
- (3) Create and provide forms, including a data collection form for the data described in section 8(d) of this chapter.
- (4) Develop protocols for meetings of and case reviews conducted by local fetal-infant mortality review teams.
(5) Provide data collection tools that include collecting and storing the following information:
- (A) Identifying and nonidentifying information.
- (B) Information concerning the circumstances surrounding a fetal death or an infant death.
- (C) Information concerning factors that contributed to a fetal death or an infant death.
- (D) Information concerning findings and recommendations concerning a fetal death or infant death by the review team.
- (6) Provide information on the prevention of fetal deaths and infant deaths.
- (7) Obtain certificates of death and certificates of stillbirths for the review teams.
- (8) Coordinate local or statewide training concerning a fetal death or infant death review under this chapter.
As added by P.L.31-2019, SEC.5.