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.

VA Policy

HB 2111 (2021): Established a task force on maternal health data and quality measures to evaluate maternal health data collection and guide policies to improve maternal care and outcomes. This bill requires the task force to report its findings and conclusions annually by December 1st.

HB 2613 (2019): Adds information about perinatal anxiety to the types of information licensed providers providing maternity care must provide to each patient, which includes postpartum blues and perinatal depression.

VA Code § 32.1-134.01 (2003): Required all maternity care staff to provide information about perinatal depression to new families.