The Indiana Department of Health is partnering with The Milk Bank and Ardo Medical, Inc. to provide Indiana hospitals, providers, and healthcare staff with education about lactation after loss, the importance of having this conversation with families prior to discharge, and bereavement kits. This initiative magnifies why maternal and/or family interviews are such a valuable piece to the FIMR program. Some of our best recommendations come directly from families themselves.

This document serves as a training tool and resource for reviewing the rules associated with CFR in Ohio.

The Kent County Fetal Infant Mortality Review program plans to publish yearly reports that summarize new infant mortality data along with updated recommendations created by the case review team.

Case Review Decisions Form-Utilizing these questions, including the positive elements, helps identify the trends in system, health care, and social determinants of health that contribute to birth outcomes and create actionable recommendations.

A tool to help organizations define their step-by-step FIMR process.

The report includes case review findings from infant and fetal deaths that occurred in SJC hospitals between May 2019-May 2022 and were reviewed between January 2021- June 2022.

A tool to help anyone navigate grief support for patients, clients, family members, or friends.

In 2019, the Indiana Department of Health Infant Safe Sleep Program conducted focus groups with caregivers regarding their perceptions and experiences with safe sleep. The participants provided suggestions for future safe sleep campaign messaging that they believed would influence sleep practices among families in Indiana. One of their recommendations was to share true stories from local families who lost infants in unsafe sleep environments. That recommendation led to the development of seven videos featuring three mothers in Indiana.

This SUID recommendations matrix can be used to identify health, social, economic, environmental, and systemic risk factors and incident response challenges to use in case reviews.