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Efforts of the New York State Perinatal Association Include:
- Regional forums for linking
partners to enhance perinatal health.
- Collaborative conference
with representatives from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New
York on "Crossing Boundaries & Disciplines to Improve Perinatal
Care" (6/00).
- Provide testimony at Public
Hearings. For example, the Governor's Commission on Child Abuse and
Neglect (2/96) and the State Senate's Insurance Committee.
- Serve as an advisory to
state government through representation on various bodies to the Executive
and Legislative branches - including the Assembly Health Committee's
Perinatal Advisory Committee, various Ad Hoc Advisory Groups to the
NYS Department of Health including those on Perinatal Regionalization
and Comprehensive Newborn HIV Testing Programs.
Support Legislative Activity:
- The Midwifery Act
- Advocated for increased
PCAP eligibility to 250% FPL (2000).
- Collaborated with March
of Dimes and other organizations to urge Governor Pataki to provide
a gradual transition for the care of pregnant women to mandatory managed
Medicaid, to support presumptive eligibility for prenatal care, and
other key components of the PCAP standards. These efforts led to the
successful inclusion of PCAP standards in the NYS Medicaid Managed Care
Legislation (1996).
- Waving citizenship requirements
for medical license in New York State (to increase the number of obstetrical
providers and increase to care access for pregnant women).
- Direct access to obstetrical
care (1993).
- Universal primary care
for children in New York State (NYS Child Health Act).
- Address potential hazards
resulting from trends in early post-partum discharge of mothers and
their babies.
- Successfully challenged
legislative efforts to include family savings and investment assets
in eligibility criteria for PCAP (1992).
- Endorsed the need for tort
reform for the Neurologically Impaired Infant (1992).
- Helped develop regulations
relating to the provision of nutritional and psychosocial services for
pregnant women in New York State, increased remuneration for physicians
treating Medicaid patients and reduced reporting requirements (1990).
- Supported Governor's initiative
to expand funding for prenatal care to women with incomes up to 185%
of poverty levels (1989).
- Supported Governor's initiative
to expand the Prenatal Care Assistance Program (PCAP)(1988).
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