Closing Gaps in Maternal Mental Healthcare

The Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health is a national think tank, nonprofit organization advancing policies that support a health care system that routinely detects and treats maternal mental health disorders for every mother, every time.

MN Policy

HF 4251 (2006): Requires the commissioner of health to develop materials and information about postpartum depression, including treatment resources. Requires Physicians, traditional midwives, and other license health care professionals providing prenatal care to women must have available to women and their families information about postpartum depression. Hospitals and WIC Facilities must provide departing new mothers and fathers and other family members, written information about postpartum depression.