Lobbyist information

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Abigail Rogers

$1,103.00

Employed Terminated Details about your lobbyist or lobbyist entity's efforts 01/01/2018 07/13/2018 Overview: The March of Dimes advocacy agenda focuses on public policies and programs that relate to improving the health of infants and children by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. Areas of Focus: 1.) Pass legislation that would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to age 21. 2.) Advocate for funding to support a statewide efforts to improve care for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome. 3.) Identify ways policy efforts can eliminate barriers to access, administration and adherence to 17 Alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate, a synthetic form of progesterone that has been shown to reduce the recurrence of preterm birth for women with singleton gestations that have a history of previous preterm birth. 4.) Support efforts to preserve essential public health funding including Smoking Prevention and Cessation Programs, Family Health Services, the Birth Defects Monitoring Program, Early Intervention Services, Newborn Hearing Screening Program, Nutritional Services, Teen Pregnancy programs. General Advocacy & Government Affairs Issues: Access to Health Care for Women of Childbearing Age, Infants and children/Prevention and Treatment •Medicaid, private insurance (including issues related to Health Insurance Marketplaces, enrollment, benefits, and cost-sharing) and other public programs that support access to health care services, such as the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant and Vaccines for Children. •Development, improvement and use of maternal, perinatal, and pediatric quality measures across all health care settings and types of coverage. •Initiatives to improve the health of infants and children living with birth defects and health problems associated with preterm birth and other adverse birth outcomes. •Smoking, alcohol, and substance abuse prevention and cessation initiatives affecting women of childbearing age and children, including prevention of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. •Health education and promotion for patients, families and providers regarding healthy pregnancy, including folic acid, preconception care, maternal mental health, emerging infectious diseases such as Zika, and the appropriate use of prescription medication. •Programs to immunize women of childbearing age, infants, and children, as well as those likely to come into contact with infants, efforts to eradicate polio worldwide, and research to develop new vaccines for pathogens such as Zika virus. •Initiatives to improve prematurity risk detection, pregnancy management, and birth spacing, including Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant programs and Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visitation. •Federal and state initiatives to expand newborn screening, consistent with the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel, as well as treatment of disorders identified through screening. •Initiatives to address social and cultural determinants of health to reduce social, racial and ethnic inequities in health. •Efforts to establish and fund quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, such as perinatal quality collaboratives, to drive development and adoption of data-driven systemic improvements in maternal and child health outcomes. •Food and nutrition research, education and services, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children and breastfeeding initiatives. •Programs to reduce exposure to environmental and reproductive hazards associated with adverse outcomes in pregnancy and child development.

Total salaries paid:      $1,103.00

Lobbyist Entity information

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The Suffolk Group	$7,200.00
Employed Terminated 01/01/2018

Total salaries paid:      $7,200.00

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