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Arkansas lawmakers propose amendments as passage of fiscal 2025 budget nears • Arkansas Advocate

Arkansas’ 2024 fiscal session, which was initially projected to end this week, is now expected to end May 2 or possibly the following week, House Speaker Matthew Shepherd said Thursday. During the final days of the session, the Legislature will pass the fiscal year 2025 budget, also known as the Revenue Stabilization Act. The Joint […]

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Arkansas lawmakers consider shifting funds from health care data hub to UAMS midwifery program • Arkansas Advocate

An Arkansas legislative panel on Tuesday approved diverting funds from a state health care data hub to start a midwifery education program at the state’s largest medical school. Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, proposed removing the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement from a section of a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences appropriations bill and rewriting […]

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Crypto regulations, lectern audit become the talk of the Arkansas fiscal session • Arkansas Advocate

Last week Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the first of many appropriations bills for her proposed $6.3 billion state budget that will head to her desk in the coming weeks. Sanders signed a general appropriations bill for the judicial branch, the legislative branch and the state auditor, as well as a separate bill setting […]

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Arkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate

An Arkansas legislative panel on Thursday approved the doubling of a taxpayer-funded grant to support pregnancy resource centers, which are often religiously affiliated and discourage abortion while encouraging birth. Republican leaders statewide have held up pregnancy resource centers as critical since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and Arkansas subsequently […]

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Innovation fuel needed to ensure Arkansas moms survive and thrive

Although I haven’t birthed a baby, I am a dad who has been at my wife’s side during two very emotional and tense deliveries for the births of my sons. My oldest arrived via emergency cesarean section (C-section) after routine labor hit a snag when the umbilical cord got wrapped around his neck, and nurses […]

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Arkansas agencies pursue initiatives to improve state’s maternal health • Arkansas Advocate

Arkansas officials are collaborating on outreach events and initiatives to fill gaps in women’s health care services in response to the governor’s directive to improve maternal health. Arkansas has the nation’s highest maternal mortality rate and the third highest infant mortality rate, according to the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. Black mothers are most at […]

City Council

Philadelphia City Council discusses maternal health disparities | #citycouncil

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Members of Philadelphia’s City Council marked International Women’s Day on Friday with a conversation about racial disparities in maternal deaths. The Committee on Public Health and Human Services, chaired by Councilmember at-large Nina Ahmad, convened the […]

Arkansas

Arkansas governor authorizes committee, strategic plan aimed at bolstering maternal health • Arkansas Advocate

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday announced a campaign aimed at improving maternal health in Arkansas. At a morning press conference, Sanders signed an executive order creating a committee, which includes some cabinet officials, that will formulate a “comprehensive statewide strategic health plan.” One of the goals of the plan will be to connect more […]

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Arkansas state and medical leaders address maternal health crisis to prevent deaths

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas state leaders met with state healthcare leaders on Wednesday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to discuss maternal healthcare. According to a study from the Arkansas Department of Health, the Arkansas Maternal Mortality Review Committee found that 92% of maternal deaths from 2018-2020 were ‘potentially preventable’. The […]

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Arkansas pregnancy centers seek help with advertising, material needs from $1M state grant

Twenty-one pregnancy resource centers throughout Arkansas have applied for a taxpayer funds to bolster services for the second year in a row. The $1 million grant program will provide financial support to the centers, sometimes called “crisis pregnancy centers” and often religiously affiliated. Adoption agencies and maternity care homes are also eligible for the grant, […]